Feel Your Way: A proposition concerning transitional spaces and the autobiographical

This talk proposes that in dealing with the autobiographical, whether through art practice or writing – we are entering and working within a psychoanalytic space, known as a ‘transitional space’. Thus, the liminal space of autobiographical artistic practice is a transitional space: a space in which our internal and external worlds meet, collide, and are held in a paradoxical relation of separateness and yet inter-relatedness. That autobiographical practices working within transitional spaces are working within a space of creative potential, rest, and play. In this way, autobiographical practices are able to explore one’s self and engage one’s audience. This article examines this proposition in light of Maria Lassnig's artistic practice.