Staring at Monsters

Trying to figure out as much about monsters as possible.

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Psychopathia Transexualis: Conservative and Radical Investments in the Transfeminine Serial Killer

When news broke in 1957 of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, the truth of his crimes soon mixed with a popular mythology focusing on his…

Also:

http://feministing.com/2016/03/10/my-auntie-buffalo-bill-the-unavoidable-transmisogyny-of-silence-of-the-lambs/

http://www.autostraddle.com/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-trans-woman-on-horror-and-transfemininity-198212/

http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC43folder/EdGein.html

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Creepy and terrifying dolls and masks, from horror movies

From top: Death Doll (1989)

Annabelle, from The Conjuring

Behind the Mask (2006)

Cub (2014)

new Scream TV series

Baby face killer, from The Hills Run Red

Bloody face, from Americam Horror Story

Last one is by purplenothing on deviant art 

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Lon Chaney, Jr; The Ghost of Frankenstein, 1942

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Robert De Niro

Spawn of Frankenstein

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Dinosaur / human hybrid

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Technology as Symptom and Dream

Cutting up the world, to examine it as Other, through a lens

leads to epic destruction

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Where has the Frankenstein impulse gone?

Genetic Engineering impulse: Splice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6o_Vl2f07Q "Human cloning is illegal. This won't be human. not entirely."

self/less https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc4sz6neHDs "We offer humanity's greatest minds more time to fill their potential"

The frankenstein code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf324kNw5lE Immortality through genetic manipulation, not patchwork corpses - "This isn't me" - "This is the best version of you. don't you want it?"

AI/cyborg impulse: Transcendance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTen3-B8GU "It may be intelligent, it may even be sentient. This is not Will."

Ex Machina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI8XBKb6DQk "The challenge is to show you that she's a robot, then see if you still feel she has consciousness."

Classic impulse:

Frankenstein Chronicles https://vk.com/video-691836_171163314?list=faab862635075315f4

Victor Frankenstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvESrJ5GdHc

Danny Boyle's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY85IzWexWo

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Blood for Dracula (1974) aka Andy Warhol’s Dracula (1974)

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Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) aka Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein

watching …

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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

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Our Beast

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The Dollmaker, from Gotham

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Sandra Gregson - Erebus & Terror Gregson’s initial idea for this exhibition was a consideration of fear and how it is shaped by culture, for example, fairy tales of ‘big, bad wolves’. Whilst researching, Gregson lived for a year in Edinburgh, Scotland and her research about fear and wolves led to an investigation of topics such as the Scottish landscape and land use, legends and children’s stories, wilderness, rewilding, British explorers and settlers in Canada, including Franklin’s search for the NorthWest Passage on his ships, presciently named, Erebus and Terror. Her work expanded from the idea of fear to an exploration of how human activities have shaped, rather than adapted to the natural world. Erebus & Terror became a fitting title for the exhibition, echoing past and current human interaction with the earth. Her exhibition includes collage, sculpture and video.