VOLUME 4

JOUISSANCE:

THE PERMANENT ALTERNATION OF WOMAN & MONSTER

DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, DESIGNER: ERRIN SHIN
16 MM BOLEX DOP: BEA MANCTIL
MAKEUP ARTIST: QETO CHANTADZE
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: ALEXZANDRIA ASHTON
STYLIST ASSISTANT: JACK PEKARKSY
TALENT: CHANDNI AMIRA DHANOA, MARIANNA NOUSS, JOI LI

JOUISSANCE: THE PERMANENT ALTERNATION OF WOMAN & MONSTER

“Jouissance is the ultimate orgasm of the psyche…
where we confront the abyss of the self,
where desire and repulsion intertwine,
a moment of transcendence and dissolution.”

-Julia Kristeva

In the collection JOUISSANCE: The Permanent Alternation of Woman and Monster, Errin Shin delves into the abject’s edge, where jouissance arises. Kristeva’s conception of jouissance involves a complex interplay between pleasure and pain... between desire and disgust. It encompasses both the ecstatic experience of merging with “the other” and the unsettling encounter with what is considered socially, culturally, or psychologically repulsive.

Unveiling archetypes of the monstrous feminine (Barbara Creed) from horror cinema, "JOUISSANCE" is discovered through a regurgitated transformation of these archetypes. A place where "woman" is envisioned as an enlightened creature, wherein the “I” does not disappear, but finds in the repulsion a sublime alienation, a fallen existence... where skin serves not only as a physical boundary, but a psychic boundary.

Through a cathartic interrogation of the “abject,” we unravel: What is beauty when it is stripped to its raw core?