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Duchamp – A Liberating Lineage For Social Art Practice, Part 1 (Jacquelynn Baas)
The following is the first of a two-part series. My thanks to curator Mary Jane Jacob and artist Ernesto Pujol for their skillful editing of this text. Pujol originally proposed the topic of the essay, which will be published in 2018 as part of the School of the Art Institute…
Something To Do With A Girl Named Marla – Eros And Gender In Fincher’s “Fight Club”, Part 3 (Vernon Cisney)
The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The second is here. Something to Do With a Girl Named Marla The most significant shortcoming of Tyler’s pure yang energy, however, resides in the fact that it is powerless or unable to love. As…
Something To Do With A Girl Named Marla – Eros And Gender In Fincher’s “Fight Club”, Part 2 (Vernon Cisney)
The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. This interaction prompts the narrator’s first visit to a support group for men with testicular cancer, most of whom had lost their testicles. Here too, we learn a great deal more about the nature…
Mediation Into Remediation – The Impact Of The “Blockbuster” Industry On Visual Culture, Part 2 (Alice De Bourgoing)
The following is the second of a two part series. The first can be found here. With the recent debate on the switch from illusion to immersion, we know that Hollywood’s image factory produces affect despite our awareness of constructed images. Indeed, our suspension of disbelief works only in cinema.…
Mediation Into Remediation – The Impact Of The “Blockbuster” Industry On Visual Culture, Part 1 (Alice De Bourgoing)
The following is the first of a two-part series. When Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (2016) won six Oscars and seven Golden Globes, I wondered how a film that was not really innovative could be such a success. Indeed, this transposition of classical jazz musical only renews the old genres…
What Might Burning Man Say To Reflexive Christianity In The West?, Part 2 (John W. Morehead)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. With a basic definition of counterculture, as well as consideration of their oppositional forms of expression and differing types, I now turn to consideration of their significance in relation to Burning Man, as well…
Making Mesoamerica Visible In The Discourse Of Contemporary Art And Ecology (Elliott Jenkins)
“In our everyday lived experience, there is an unforgiving momentum to adopt ways of being that are Eurocentric within a coloniality of power, especially in schools.” -Cueponcaxochitl Dianna Moreno Sandoval In order to recognize human impact on the environment, it is first important to understand our relationship with our planet…
Images Of Place And Territory In Contemporary Israeli-Jew And Palestinian Art, Part 2 (Yael Guilat)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first one can be found here. Translation from Hebrew: Daria Kassovsky. Representation of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Landscapes and Maps In the local history of landscape representation as territory, concurrent with the development of the landscape motif in national-Zionist art, landscape…