Re: [-empyre-] visualization between art and anthropology
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Fiamma, thanks! In your work in Tijuana, you undertook to visualize some structural power differentials -- right? -- in the aftermath of artist-cultural interventions and programming by the project group InSite? In the mid-oughts ? Did you assert anthropological analytics to visualize the curator-artist-community triad? How did you use a feminist methodology - or maybe feminist sensibility in this visualization as it took a swerve away from your previous anthropological practice -- ? Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 9, 2016, at 2:19 AM, fiamma montezemolo > wrote: > > --empyre- soft-skinned space-- > > Hi all, > > > > Many thanks for your discussion last week, I have been following it with some > delays but with great interest. > > > > I will try to jump into the conversation, starting mainly from my fieldwork > which - as Christina mentioned - has consistently been located between art > and anthropology. I've been dwelling in this milieu for the last 20 years. > More recently, inspired by Susan Hiller in particular, I've moved away from > academic anthropology which was based on my long term fieldwork in Mexico (at > the border between TIjuana and San Diego, where I resided for 6 years). As a > result, I have attempted to translate my work into an artistic practice with > the aim of bypassing the questionable divide between theory and practice, > between the conceptual and sensorial. In my research-based art, I began to > create inter-media, inter-disciplinary and cross-genre interventions being > particularly interested in those practices that reflect on the border as a > mobile category of experience, of sensible AND conceptual mediations, > disciplinary negotiations, and geopolitical articulations. My very first > video work has been in Chiapas with the Zapatistas during the '90s: > > > > http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#faceless > > > > My focus at the time was on gender and ethnicity from a 'post-feminist' > perspective (Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Renato Rosaldo, etc.). Since > then, of course, I moved on to other topics and themes because an > 'identity-politics based' orientation became 'majoritarian', so to speak, > borrowing from Deleuze and Guattari. > > > > > > At the moment, my major preoccupation is to visualize my research-based art > practice through various media forms: > > > > 1) fieldwork intimacy through apps: > > > > http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#fieldwork-notes > > > > 2) Ecological problematics, primarily via installation work: > > > > http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#the-3-ecologies > > > > 3) border issues, primarily via the video-essay form: > > > > http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#traces (password: fiamma) > > > > Looking forward to having more stimulating conversations, > > Fiamma > -- > Fiamma Montezemolo > www.FiammaMontezemolo.com > ___ > empyre forum > empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au > http://empyre.library.cornell.edu ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
[-empyre-] visualization between art and anthropology
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi all, Many thanks for your discussion last week, I have been following it with some delays but with great interest. I will try to jump into the conversation, starting mainly from my fieldwork which - as Christina mentioned - has consistently been located between art and anthropology. I've been dwelling in this milieu for the last 20 years. More recently, inspired by Susan Hiller in particular, I've moved away from academic anthropology which was based on my long term fieldwork in Mexico (at the border between TIjuana and San Diego, where I resided for 6 years). As a result, I have attempted to translate my work into an artistic practice with the aim of bypassing the questionable divide between theory and practice, between the conceptual and sensorial. In my research-based art, I began to create inter-media, inter-disciplinary and cross-genre interventions being particularly interested in those practices that reflect on the border as a mobile category of experience, of sensible AND conceptual mediations, disciplinary negotiations, and geopolitical articulations. My very first video work has been in Chiapas with the Zapatistas during the '90s: http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#faceless My focus at the time was on gender and ethnicity from a 'post-feminist' perspective (Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Renato Rosaldo, etc.). Since then, of course, I moved on to other topics and themes because an 'identity-politics based' orientation became 'majoritarian', so to speak, borrowing from Deleuze and Guattari. At the moment, my major preoccupation is to visualize my research-based art practice through various media forms: 1) fieldwork intimacy through apps: http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#fieldwork-notes 2) Ecological problematics, primarily via installation work: http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#the-3-ecologies 3) border issues, primarily via the video-essay form: http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#traces (password: fiamma) Looking forward to having more stimulating conversations, Fiamma -- Fiamma Montezemolo www.FiammaMontezemolo.com ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
Re: [-empyre-] On the limits of critique (d'Ignacio) and the limits of representation (Barad) (Murat Nemet-Nejat)
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Christina and List. Briefly, thanks for the Cixousreference. I would say yes, on that, definitely whatI was talking about relates to ecriture along withother sorts of noticing of intertexts. I'd be happyto share a snippet from *Atonement* but as ithappens I'm traveling & don't have the book w/ me.But luckily Google Books carries a searchableversion. If you get to that, search for "finger" w/othe quotes. Pages 35 & 36 have the passage Iwas talking about. I find it interesting becauseI think McEwan was referencing (ecritur-ing) theso called reflex arc, which relates to nervousimpulses passed from one body area to anotherwithout passing through the central nervoussystem. So that kind of parodic reference alongwith concepts of the writing self is what I wantedto convey. Thanks again and if discussion hereseems to warrant it I'll send a short quote fromMcEwan as you suggest. Best wishes, William ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
