Despite the increasing incidence of eating disorders, very few films have addressed these conditions in particular. What's more, most of the US-American mainstream fiction films that deal with eating disorders tend to be built on anachronistic...
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Despite the increasing incidence of eating disorders, very few films have addressed these conditions in particular. What's more, most of the US-American mainstream fiction films that deal with eating disorders tend to be built on anachronistic clichés, hardly depicting their broad array. Furthermore, the traditional narrative structure of beginning, middle, and (happy) end misrepresents the erratic temporality of eating disorder symptoms as well as the nonlinear phases of recovery and relapse.
By distancing it from historical revival (i.e., 'Living History'), reenactment is here understood as artistic strategy as well as curatorial practice, and therefore as critical method. As artistic strategy it implies the reactivation (over time) and...
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By distancing it from historical revival (i.e., 'Living History'), reenactment is here understood as artistic strategy as well as curatorial practice, and therefore as critical method. As artistic strategy it implies the reactivation (over time) and remediation (on different supports) of images stemming from a vast visual repertoire that artists - especially those working with time-based media (film, video, performance) - appropriate in order to give them new meanings. As curatorial practice and critical method, reenactment regards the remaking of impermanent artworks and the restaging of temporary exhibitions to possibly offer an understanding of (art) history that gives preference to a visual and performative, sometimes immersive, approach.
Drawing on Henri-Jacques Stiker's historical analysis, this entry explores the emergence of rehabilitative practices in the western discourse in the twentieth century, its relation to disability, autonomy, and vulnerability
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Drawing on Henri-Jacques Stiker's historical analysis, this entry explores the emergence of rehabilitative practices in the western discourse in the twentieth century, its relation to disability, autonomy, and vulnerability
This text discusses rehabilitation in relation to prosthetics by focusing on the artist Lorenza Böttner. Lorenza's refusal to use prosthetics provides an example for the argument concerning the manner in which rehabilitation operates within a context...
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This text discusses rehabilitation in relation to prosthetics by focusing on the artist Lorenza Böttner. Lorenza's refusal to use prosthetics provides an example for the argument concerning the manner in which rehabilitation operates within a context of gender and sexual conformity.
Interruptions and discontinuity are the very essence of Aby Warburg's conception of the temporality that affects art objects. Beneath the seemingly immobilized expressive gesture, the Hamburg scholar recognizes the vitality of the "Pathosformeln"...
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Interruptions and discontinuity are the very essence of Aby Warburg's conception of the temporality that affects art objects. Beneath the seemingly immobilized expressive gesture, the Hamburg scholar recognizes the vitality of the "Pathosformeln" that convey the intricacy of human multi-layered temporality, made of interruptions, resumptions, inversions, regressions, stops, accelerations, and survivals (Nachleben). In this sense, Warburg's idea of 'renewal', which he developed from his well-known investigation of the Italian Renaissance, does not quite overlap with the notion of rebirth: an expressive gesture can re-emerge and be renewed in a different time without dying and being born a second time with a different form.
