Stephanie Spindler is an American artist. She has recently completed her practice led Ph.D. at Chelsea College of Art, The University of the Arts London. The title of her research thesis, Undoings: a Feminist Art Practice Investigating Female Sexed Corporeality and Othered Phenomenological Bodies. This fine art practice-led research investigates how the female sexed body might elicit sexual difference as an integral subjective perspective through modes of representation, modalities of experience and materiality. This research project seeks to explore, through a visual arts practice, how a woman’s embodied consciousness can be in conflict with dominant ideologies of femininity, particularly in the context of a patriarchal society in which male embodiment is privileged over that of women. It explores how working through the processes of making in my sculptural installation practice provides the possibility for a radical new phenomenological body to emerge.

            The practice-led research explores the structure of experience, using a theoretical feminist phenomenological methodology in relation to a sculptural installation practice, where feminist phenomenology and new materialism intersect to explore the experiential and material engagement of matter and meaning. This investigation turns to materiality that is at the core of artistic practice.

            The subject provokes the specificity of a sexed body through the expression, motility, and materiality of the co-emergent and co-immersive processes of doing/undoing, touching/touched and moving/being moved with the artwork and the performative process of making as a line of questioning.