Clare's research interests include feminist theory, feminist art history and visual culture. Her PhD thesis was entitled ‘Textures of Femininity: Temporality, Feminism and Generation in Contemporary Women’s Art’. This work focuses on the relationship between sexualized femininities and feminist politics in contemporary women’s art practice. Drawing on an archive of artworks made predominantly during the 1970s and 1990s, the thesis critically examines the basis upon which some kinds of art are considered feminist, while others are deemed too pleasurable to be political. It explores cross-generational affinities between women artists and develops a feminist politics of femininity. Clare’s published work explores women’s art practice in relation to maternal loss and desire, empathy, affective engagement and temporality. In 2005 she co-convened a symposium on ‘Mediated Pleasures in (post)Feminist Contexts’ (with Dr. Sue Tate). Clare Johnson is also a referee and member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Gender Studies. In her previous career Clare worked in magazine publishing (consumer titles) as a writer and production editor. She published numerous reviews and interviews with designers and illustrators in Computer Arts magazine. As a production editor Clare worked on, amongst other titles, PC Format, PC Guide and SFX. Selected Research Outputs: Johnson, C. (2009), Review of ‘Masculinity and Popular Television’ by Rebecca Feasey (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2008) for Journal of Gender Studies, 18:2 Johnson, C. (forthcoming), ‘Emin is Screaming: Empathy as Affirmative Engagement in Tracey Emin’s Homage to Edvard Munch and All My Dead Children (1998)’, Parallax, issue 56 (July-September 2010) Johnson, C. (forthcoming), 'Preposterous Histories: maternal desire, loss and control' in Carolee Schneemann's Interior Scroll (1975) and Tracey Emin's I've Got It All (2000)', article to be published in Feminist Media Studies, vol 10, no. 3, September 2010. Johnson, C. (forthcoming), 'The Embodied Intellectual: 'Impression' and 'Contact' as Political Currency', article for conference ebook Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, Ideas, ISBN 978-1-904710-67-7, Inter-Disciplinary Press Johnson, C. (December 2006), 'Traces of Feminist Art: Temporal Complexity in the Work of Eleanor Antin, Vanessa Beecroft and Elizabeth Manchester', Feminist Theory, 7:3, pp.309-332, ISSN 1464-7001 Johnson, C. (April 2002), ‘The Position of the Fine Art Student in the Context of Public Accountability of Higher Education, with Specific Reference to the Quality Assurance Agency Experience’, Teaching in Higher Education, 7:2, pp.215-224, ISSN 1356-2517. Johnson, C. (2004), ‘Vulnerable Encounters’, catalogue essay in ROW, ISBN 0 9543810, 41, Impact Press Conference papers / invited talks Clare has presented conference papers both in the UK and further afield. September 2010, What do Radical Feminist Art Films Look Like? Desire and Duration in Sam Taylor-Wood’s David (2004) Radical British Screens : one-day symposium, Bush House, University of the West of England, Bristol May 2008, 'The Embodied Intellectual: 'Impression' and 'Contact' as Political Currency', paper delivered at Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, Ideas, Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Budapest. March 2005, ‘Temporal Productions of Hyper-Femininity’, paper delivered at Mediated Pleasures in (post)Feminist Contexts symposium co-convened by Clare Johnson and Sue Tate as part of UWE’s ‘Predicaments in Visual Culture’ symposium series. May 2004, ‘The Performance of Femininity in Contemporary Women’s Video Art’, paper delivered at Console-ing Passions: International conference on Feminism, Television, Video, New Media, and Audio, Tulane University, New Orleans. March 2002, ‘Taking Risks: Subtlety and Intervention in the work of Vanessa Beecroft’, paper delivered at Women on the Edge, Central Michigan University. March 2002, ‘The Aestheticisation of the Corporeal in the Work of Vanessa Beecroft’, paper delivered at MA Visual Culture Day School, Bath Spa University College. September 2001, ‘Power, Pleasure and Self-Mastery in the Work of Cathy de Monchaux’, paper delivered at Human Frailty, UWE’s Centre for Critical Theory and Cambridge University. July 2001, ‘The Radical Pose in Recent Performance Art: Vanessa Beecroft’s Spectacular Mannequins’, paper delivered at Gender and Culture: Consumption and Women’s Everyday Lives, Women’s Studies Network Association conference, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education. July 2001, ‘Strike a Pose: Transcending the Invisible Body’, paper delivered at Cultural Studies: Between Politics and Ethics, Bath Spa University College. February 2001, ‘Notions of Radicalism in Contemporary Fine Art Practice’, paper delivered at MA Visual Culture Day School, Bath Spa University College. December 1999, ‘Strategies of Resistance: the Re-empowering of Woman as Image’, paper delivered at Critical Interventions: Obscene Powers, Southampton University. November 1999, 'Asking For It: the Re-empowering of Woman as Image’, paper delivered at MA Visual Culture Day School, Bath Spa University College.  Clare.Johnson@uwe.ac.ukback |
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