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Amor Psyche Aktion - Wien
"Viennese Actionism fought for individual freedom and its movement contributed to greater interpersonal and sexual tolerance. To this day the cultural shock caused by their rebellion against baroque Catholicism and the sacred family can still be felt. The work of the four main protagonists of Viennese Actionism - Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkogler a Günter Brus-would not have been possible without its preceding and contemporary influences. Surrounded by a repressed political past, both men and women were seeking to explore the experience of the highs and lows of 'being human' against the hypocrisy towards sentiments and drang"--http://www.dox.cz/
Gender, relations, revisions
von der Rolle Wer sich mit Gender befasst, begibt sich auf eine Reise durch alle Bereiche der gesellscha- lichen Verhältnisse, lernt die Mechanismen von Gruppenzwängen, Ein- und Ausgrenzungen in verschiedenster Gestalt kennen und entdeckt letztlich sich selbst zu einem nicht geringen Teil als Produkt dieser starken, allgemein wirksamen Kräfte. Gender, das ist die Rolle, der wir z- geschrieben sind, die uns auf den Leib geschrieben ist, in die wir hineingewachsen sind. Sehr oft aber ist es eine Rolle, die uns widerstrebt, mit der wir uns nicht identifizieren können, g- schweige denn wollen. Der Begriff beschreibt ein Muster, von dem wir abhängen – oft aus traditionsbedingter Anhänglic...
Cultrans
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Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels
This book explores the close association between the literary representation of historical trauma and the alternative narrative form of magical realism, underscoring the role of memory, empathy and imagination. It discusses the potential of magical realism to give a literary representation to individual and collective trauma arising from the Holocaust, slavery, and apartheid, and to turn those unspoken memories into narratives. It also analyses the role of magical realism in depicting trauma suffered by female victims during and following those events. Again, by dealing with the above-mentioned events, their specific historical context and universal meaning for humankind, this book highlights a universal experience of trauma.
Film International
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Crisis and Communitas
This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of community in the 20th and 21st century in the context of global/local social and political changes. This volume opens new vitas by focusing on carefully selected instances of multipronged crises in which existing concepts of commonality are questioned, reformulated, or even speculatively designed with a (better) future in view. As many authors of this volume argue, in the face of today’s unprecedented global ecological and economic challenges speculative design is of utmost importance as it can foster alternative, unthought-of forms of connectivity ...
Ethics of Contemporary Art
What happens when the shock of artistic transgression wears off, when scandal dissipates, when outrage becomes a tired routine? In this original new book, Theo Reeves-Evison argues that transgressive art no longer succeeds on its own terms in societies where language, prohibition and morality have become increasingly malleable. This compels us to rethink the relationship between contemporary art and ethics, and focus our attention on the potential of artworks to propose new values rather than simply challenge pre-existing moral codes. Assembling a novel theoretical framework from the writings of Félix Guattari, Jacques Lacan and others, Ethics of Contemporary Art narrates a journey away from transgression towards a new critical paradigm for the relationship between ethics and aesthetics that places questions of subjectivity centre stage. Along the way artworks by Kader Attia, Artur Zmijewski, Dora Garcia and others serve as springboards launching discussions of the varied pathways along which a renewed ethics of contemporary art might develop.
Contemporary Art
Texts and interviews with key contemporary artists
Rahmensprenger
Der britische Filmemacher Peter Watkins (geb. 1935) ist vermutlich einer der meist übersehenen zeitgenössischen Regisseure Europas. Watkins' Filme fordern einerseits ein vor allem politisches Engagement ihrer Rezipient_innen, was durch das schriftliche Werk des Künstlers angetrieben und verstärkt wird. Zum anderen bewegen sich Watkins' Werke auf und über Grenzen: Der Gewinn des Oscars für den besten Dokumentarfilm 1966 (»The War Game«, 1965) verwundert zunächst und steht doch exemplarisch für ein Gesamtwerk, dessen Filme sich weder klar als dokumentarisch oder fiktional noch als Kino- oder Fernsehfilm einordnen lassen. Der Filmemacher, der sich kritisch mit gesellschaftlichen und s...
