The Celluloid Closet
Sullivan, Nikki A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory
Transexual Empires and Transgender Warriors
Sadomasochism as Resistance?
Butler, Judith, Imitation and Gender Insubordination
Ross, Kristin. Emergence of Social Space
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Queer Theory New Notebook p17-29
March 23, 2009 – 8:37 pm
three awkward recordings
March 12, 2009 – 9:16 pm
Three awkward conversations with passerby’s/observers of the piece on mcculloh street
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=e31beb6c39699ebc1bee9a6e9edd9c7628b39855110a6c83c95965eaa7bc68bc
VLC, Flip4Mac or a PC computer are unfortunately needed to play the files given the voice recorder encodes the files as WMA’s
Readings
March 12, 2009 – 8:18 pm
Selections that are interesting regarding Street art, considering body relationship to space and regulation, relegation, representation of landscape, the image, and the nature of democracy. All excerpts from larger books
“Body/Power” from Power/Knowledge, by Michel Foucault
“Holy Landscape: Israel, Palestine and the American WIlderness” from Landscape and Power, by W.J.T. Mitchell
Selection from For an Agonistic Public Sphere
Intro to Newer Genres p 9-15
March 10, 2009 – 5:11 pm
Notes on a project that considers the nature of documentation and the experience of work on the street. I sat by a piece for two days for about 4 hours a day and observed, talked and interviewed people about the piece. Reception varied but for the most part people were extremely wary of being recorded. [...]
Modes of Regulation
March 6, 2009 – 2:06 am
The wheel, a torture device commonly used in the medieval era until the 18th Centutry, was flanked by a laptop showing the murder by oakland cops of Oscar Grant to the left, and a field monitor that displayed the surveillance of those viewing the performance. The piece was a simple and relatively rough exploration [...]
Queer Theory, New Notebook
March 5, 2009 – 4:25 am
Penetration
While reading the Queering Straight Chapter, I was struck by the predicament of penetration as an instrument power and regulation. Our current society that is founded on patriarchal values has transformed the male into a tool that controls behavior through penetrative modes of violence. Given the male physiology and inherent violence within the action [...]
Hostage Situation and Fabric of Conscience p32-35
March 4, 2009 – 10:45 pm
In response to the Black September Organization
notes on performance and reactions
Intro to Sculpture p9-23
March 4, 2009 – 4:32 am
Brahm, Gabriel Prosthetic Territories: Politics and Hypertechnologies
Autotopographies
McEvilley, Thomas Sculpture in the Age of Doubt
Ideas for found objects assignment
