What Is It Like for You? Rethinking Voice Appropriation in Parafictional Identities in Israeli Art

The article focuses on two parafictional figures created by Israeli artists at about the same time in the early 2000s: Oreet Ashery’s Marcus Fisher and Roee Rosen’s Justine Frank. Through a close reading of these case studies, I examine the phenomenon of parafictional characters as extreme cases of...

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Published in:Arts (Basel) 2023-02, Vol.12 (1), p.27
Main Author: Goldberg, Keren
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aesthetic judgment
Aesthetics
Analysis
Art, Israeli
Artists
Ashery, Oreet
Contemporary art
Cultural appropriation
Culture
Evaluation
Fiction
Fisher, Marcus
Frank, Justine
Israeli art
Israeli culture
Jewish art
Jewish people
Jews
Judgment
parafiction
Portrayals
Religious orthodoxy
Rosen, Roee
voice appropriation
Voice communication
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Summary:The article focuses on two parafictional figures created by Israeli artists at about the same time in the early 2000s: Oreet Ashery’s Marcus Fisher and Roee Rosen’s Justine Frank. Through a close reading of these case studies, I examine the phenomenon of parafictional characters as extreme cases of voice appropriation. Against the background of rising international concern with cultural appropriation, and of the Israeli sociopolitical context characterized by a multiplicity of often conflicting identities, I argue that such appropriation is, in fact, a basic aesthetic procedure. Using Hannah Arendt’s reading of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic judgment as political judgment, and her articulation of an “enlarged mentality” as necessary for both aesthetic and political thinking, the article demonstrates how the ability to imagine a position different from your own is inherent for aesthetic representation as well as reception.
ISSN:2076-0752
2076-0752
DOI:10.3390/arts12010027