In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of authenticity and truth, a performance that in intercultural situations is easily misunderstood. Sincerity plays a major role in law, the arts--literature, but especially the visual and performing arts--and religion. Sincerity enters the English language in the sixteenth century, when theatre emerged as the dominant idiom of secular representation, during a time of major religious changes. The present historical moment has much in common with that era; with its religious and...
In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of authenticity and truth, a perf...
In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of authenticity and truth, a performance that in intercultural situations is easily misunderstood. Sincerity plays a major role in law, the arts--literature, but especially the visual and performing arts--and religion. Sincerity enters the English language in the sixteenth century, when theatre emerged as the dominant idiom of secular representation, during a time of major religious changes. The present historical moment has much in common with that era; with its religious and...
In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of authenticity and truth, a perf...
Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned and widely respected. Doris Salcedo, meet Mieke Bal. In "Of What One Cannot Speak," Bal leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo s art, encouraging us to consider each work as a theoretical object that invites and demands certain...
Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous place...
The clear-cut distinction between texts (literature) and images (art) has been challenged by a culture saturated with television and by an increased emphasis on interdisciplinary studies. From the viewpoint of our present culture, the author suggests, we can now see how some of the great writers and artists of the past overstepped the boundaries of the media in which they worked. The Mottled Screen studies as an example of this process a great literary work that cannot be confined to language alone, even though it consists exclusively of words: Proust's Remembrance of Things...
The clear-cut distinction between texts (literature) and images (art) has been challenged by a culture saturated with television and by an increased e...
Auch wenn die Kulturwissenschaften gemeinhin als neue Leitwissenschaft innerhalb der Geisteswissenschaften ausgerufen werden, so fehlt es ihnen doch nach wie vor an einer klaren theoretischen Profilierung und an einem fest umrissenen Forschungsfeld. Mieke Bal sucht mit ihrer an dekonstruktivistische wie an ideologiekritische Positionen anschließen Kulturanalyse dieses Dilemma der cultural studies zu überwinden. Sie schlägt einen entscheiden Wechsel in der Orientierung vor: den Einsatz von Konzepten als Theorien en miniature, die sie jeweils in enger Verzahnung mit den zu analysieren...
Auch wenn die Kulturwissenschaften gemeinhin als neue Leitwissenschaft innerhalb der Geisteswissenschaften ausgerufen werden, so fehlt es ihnen doch n...
Auch wenn die Kulturwissenschaften gemeinhin als neue Leitwissenschaft innerhalb der Geisteswissenschaften ausgerufen werden, so fehlt es ihnen doch nach wie vor an einer klaren theoretischen Profilierung und an einem fest umrissenen Forschungsfeld. Mieke Bal sucht mit ihren an dekonstruktivistische wie an ideologiekritische Positionen anschlieenden Kulturanalysen dieses Dilemma zu berwinden. Sie schlgt einen entscheidenden Wechsel in der Orientierung vor: den Einsatz von Konzepten als Theorien en miniature, die sie jeweils in enger Verzahnung mit den zu analysierenden Gegenstnden entwickelt....
Auch wenn die Kulturwissenschaften gemeinhin als neue Leitwissenschaft innerhalb der Geisteswissenschaften ausgerufen werden, so fehlt es ihnen doch n...
This book explores the idea that art can enact small-scale resistances against the status quo in the social domain. These acts, which we call "little resistances," determine the limited yet potentially powerful political impact of art. From different angles, seventeen authors consider the spaces where art events occur as "political spaces," and explore how such spaces host events of disagreements in migratory culture. The newly coined word "migratory" refers to the sensate traces of the movements of migration that characterize contemporary culture. In other words, movement is not an...
This book explores the idea that art can enact small-scale resistances against the status quo in the social domain. These acts, which we call "little ...
What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila to understand movement as artistic practice and as affect. Through fifteen years of Ahtila's practice, including such seminal works as The Annunciation, Where Is Where? and The House, Bal searches for the places where theoretical and artistic practices intersect, to create radical spaces in which genuinely democratic acts are performed. Bringing together different...
What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part...
