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This article examines the role of shame in aesthetics through affective infrastructures, linking performative staging and public sharing.
Building upon theories of affect and emotion, this article focuses on how shame circulates through affective infrastructures and objects of emotion, engaging with the two distinctive arts practices of Maja Malou Lyse (DK, 1993) and Reba Maybury (UK, 1990). The article pursues the ways in which shame ties to aesthetics; how it is based in a feeling of exposure and rejection that may be negotiated through performative staging, but also how it links to aesthetic evaluation and the public sharing of what is preferably kept private.
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