As the residency nears, I thought it would be helpful for us to have a place to share our work and exchange ideas.
Please share your study plan with the group-- if you'd like to post any feelings about the visual culture project, what you learned, questions, where you'd like to go from here-- all of this would be helpful.
Hope this finds you well and I'm looking forward to the residency.
--Michelle
What a great idea! I wish we had done this earlier!
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ReplyDeleteMy second packet included an examination of veiling through the works of artist Shirin Neshat. Moving away from dualist thinking relegating good and bad, I explored different levels of communication and representation of the veil throughout history as it relates to Neshat's contemporary works. Next, I read Gayle Rubin's The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex. Within this text Rubin positions the deeply rooted problem of female subordination, which has evolved over millennia, within social systems rather than in a biological entity. Rubin’s intent is to address methods used in defining gender identity and allow for a new system of alliance in which sexuality is emancipated from social mediation. Lastly, I read Between Woman and Nation, a collection of essays that address the construction of locality, nationalism and trans-nationalism examined in the context of gender.
ReplyDeleteFor my third packet, I read Mary Kelly's Re-Viewing Modern Criticism in which Kelly argues performance art shatters the pictorial paradigm situated in the Modern discourse. My last and final paper was an investigation into the invisible forces that shape the global landscape as a relevant and critical question for contemporary artists. I focus on the works of two artists, Julie Mehretu and Kimsooja, whose critical analyses illustrate contemporary geographic realities defined by confused and organized chaos that operate in present-day global culture. In exploring new models of meaning production, both artists deliver a level of emancipatory participation relative to the present day multi-dimensional human experience and interpretations of global exchange.
HI Folks,
ReplyDeleteI read both about writing (Maurice Blanchot, Helene Cixous) and about the essay documentary (Hito Steyerl and Ursula Biemann), what ended up being very fascinating for me was reading Mahmoud Darwish and John Edgar Wideman, as well as W.G. Seybald, and Rebecca Solnit, looking at how these writers attempt to offer us complex weavings around notions of truth and what it takes to speak it. The Darwish piece was poetry, the Wideman crossed barriers between fiction and non.
Kaja Silverman, a Lacanian film critic and Giorgio Agamben, a juridical philosopher gave me insight into some of the categories that I've taken as givens (the film, the law). Anyhow, as soon as I get a better grasp of the blog mechanics I look forward to putting up a section or two of what I've written.
half my post was lost so here it is again.
ReplyDeleteMy visual culture study plan was an investigation in to feminism from a global perspective.
In my first packet I read and reviewed works by Works of Trinh T. Minh-ha including her text Woman Native Other, and short films Reassemblage, Surname Viet Given Name Nam. From the perspective of a female native writer and marginalized Other, Minh-ha de-centers uneven theoretical constructs presented by Western intellectuals. Also, I read Can the Subaltern Speak? by Gayatri Chaakravorty Spivak. Spivak directs the question of oppressed woman as subaltern, a more pressing concern for Western and subaltern intellectual elites, as their subordinate position in society is increasingly affirmed in global economies. Lastly I read Lucy Lippard’s Mixed Blessings, a cross-cultural investigation into cultural art in America. Lippard conveys multiple possibilities in interpreting identity and the selected artists are invested in a process of critical engagement and destabilizing power dynamics while exposing the struggles of the marginalized and oppressed.
My second packet includes an examination of veiling through the works of artist Shirin Neshat. Moving away from dualist thinking relegating good and bad, I explore different levels of communication and representation of the veil through history as it relates to Neshat's contemporary works. Next, I read Gayle Rubin's The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex. Within this text Rubin positions the deeply rooted problem of female subordination, which has evolved over millennia, within social systems rather than in a biological entity. Rubin’s intent is to address methods used in defining gender
identity and allow for a new system of alliance in which sexuality is emancipated from social mediation. Lastly I read Between Woman and Nation, a collection of essays that address the construction of locality, nationalism and trans-nationalism examined in the context of gender.
For my third packet I read Mary Kelly's Re-Viewing Modern Criticism in which Kelly argues performance art shatters the pictorial paradigm situated in discourse of Modernism. My last and final paper was an investigation into the invisible forces that shape the global landscape as a relevant and critical question for contemporary artists. I focus on the works of two artists, Julie Mehretu and Kimsooja, whose critical analysis illustrate contemporary geographic realities defined by confused and organized chaos that operate in present-day global culture. In exploring new models of meaning production, both artists deliver a level of emancipatory participation relative to the present day multi-dimensional human experience and interpretations of global exchange.