bouncing ideas for introduction / conclusion...

PS: we should probably explain why we decided to have the theme of
'disgust' as our main theme in our write-up... what would be a good definition?
what does disgust mean?
OED: Strong repugnance, aversion, or repulsion excited by that which is loathsome or offensive, as a foul smell, disagreeable person or action, disappointed ambition, etc.; profound instinctive dislike or dissatisfaction.

In the essay about jenny saville, Michelle Meagher calls disgust: "... a habituated emotion linked to and reflective of cultural paradigms" (32).
She also describes how disgust in art is socially constructed...when we feel disgust, we do not recognize why, nor how our revulsion is created, "disgust reveals something about the way our social orders are structured and how we variously inhabit those social orders...as a gut reaction, disgust is an attempt to render oneself distinct from that which disgusts--disgust is that embodied practice of cringing, backing away, highlighting one's separation from an object"

Bouncing ideas

So disgust is the reaction to our artists' work... we are asking the viewers, why do you cringe? why do you feel repulsed? What reasons do you wish to avert your eyes? Even more so, these works of art that cause us to feel uncomfortable, they are threatening to our privacy...we feel things in association, we understand what they portray
(saville's 'bigness', coble's self-mutilation, kiki smith's intimacy with seeping,leaking, private spheres, galindo's abrasive reclamation involving women and violence)

and that is something intimate, personal, and fragile. If we acknowledge this presence, we become vulnerable.

^Is this what extreme feminist art does? It makes us vulnerable?