visual culture studies

Writing in the Kitchen with Martha Rosler and Carrie Mae Weems: From Reproductive Labor to the Affective Labor of the Image

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What do images have to do with the stubborn perception that women are naturally and fundamentally mothers? How can artwork aligned with feminism teach us to see women differently? In Writing in the Kitchen with Martha Rosler and Carrie Mae Weems: From Reproductive Labor to the Affective Labor of the Image, Kimberly Lamm explores these[…]

Burning Diagrams in Anthropology: An Inverse Museum

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Published: 11/21/2024

Burning Diagrams in Anthropology examines the use of diagrams in anthropology to reimagine how we think about, and challenge, intellectual histories. Highlighting the impossibility of escaping what different disciplines and institutions deem to be “past,” the author combines critical analysis of selected diagrams with an expansive, exploratory reimmersion in their aesthetic, ethical, and political potential.[…]

Resistance

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Published: 12/02/2021

Resistance features a selection of overtly non-conformist positions in the contemporary visual arts scene of Albania vis-à-vis the most recent social, political, and economic turmoils in the Western Balkans—a region marked by the dark side of political governances that have remained “democratic” in their outward appearance only (especially toward the European Union), while dramatically leaning[…]

Queer and Bookish: Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick as Book Artist

Published: 03/03/2022

Queer and Bookish: Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick as Book Artist represents the first booklength study to explore the intersections of Sedgwick’s critical writing, poetry, and most importantly, book art, making the case that her art criticism, especially her meditations on domestic and nineteenth-century photography, and “artist’s book” projects are as formally complex and brilliant, conceptually significant[…]

Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics: Desire, Affect, and Representation in Pornography

Published: 05/26/2016

Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics asks whether, and how, it is possible to re-appropriate pornography and think through it critically and creatively for a project of liberation. In the different contributions which make up this deliberately heterogeneous collection of short, non-canonical essays, such a quest proceeds by re-articulating the aporias of desire, intimacy, touch and seduction. It also[…]

History According to Cattle

Published: 10/01/2015

Download Poster for History of Cattle Timeline HERE. History According to Cattle is an expanded account of the acclaimed art and research project History of Other’s first major installment, The Museum of the History of Cattle (2013). The exhibition presents a large-scale ethnographic museum of world history as seen from the perspective of cattle, one[…]