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Publications<\/h4>\n

2003: Vampire in the Text: Selected Essays on Contemporary Art, London: inIVA.
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Tricksters<\/h4>\n

Debates on the relationship of artistic practice to the sociopolitical sphere have gained momentum as the more immiserating effects of globalisation have extended \u2018states of emergency\u2019 beyond their apparent earlier containment in colonial geographies. My interest in this issue stems from a long engagement with artists emerging from a political history of colonial violence and cultural dispossession, whose work may be described as an \u2018aesthetics of resistance\u2019 against the \u2018truth\u2019 claims of repressive regimes. A constellation of questions presents itself, among them: Do these practices differ from \u2018social activism\u2019 in their affect? How might one characterise the tropes they employ? Do they offer a means of reclaiming political agency? This presentation focuses on a particular set of tropes associated with…<\/p>\n

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I should like to make a plea for visual art everywhere. Or, more specifically, to ask that we rethink the ways by which we frame art in order to return to it what is proper to ar… <\/p>\n

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Toilet Rolls<\/h4>\n

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We the People<\/h4>\n

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Unsettled Accounts<\/h4>\n

The story of the white man\u2019s invention of the Indian and how this image sustained America\u2019s myth of civilization has been ably documented.(2) In order for the myth to be realized, the Red Body…<\/p>\n

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Steve McQueen\u2019s Dia…<\/h4>\n

In her final book, Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag tackled the issue of whether, in our media saturated world, we no longer know how to respond empathetically to images of the suf… <\/p>\n

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Dmitri Vilensky Interview<\/h4>\n

DV: In your article \u2018Art and the Ethics of In(ter)vention\u2019 you speak of the need for new configurations of collective action against what is perceived as accelerating alienation, not just of labour but of the spirit. Of course, for us as a group this is very important. We come together to reclaim collective agency. It would be good if we could talk a little in this direction. How do you see the relation of this agency to the dominant power? How can they dissolve its dominance? Which means of production do they have in their hands?
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Fictional Histories: Ma…<\/h4>\n

According to the Great Encyclopaedia, the first museum in the modern sense of the word (meaning the first public collection) was founded in France by the Convention of July 27, 1793…<\/p>\n

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Introduction to Vampir..<\/h4>\n

Vampire in the Text: Narratives of Contemporary Art, London: inIVA, 2003. In cinematic and theoretical accounts of Bram Stoker\u2019s novel Dracula, the role of Mina, Jonathan Harker…<\/p>\n

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Tuti Fruti<\/h4>\n

I should really introduce myself. I hesitate only because I am a trifle embarrassed by my name. Of course it is not the name I would have chosen for myself. I would have preferred somethi..<\/p>\n

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Journal<\/h4>\n

Jean Fisher’s blog, news, publications…<\/p>\n

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Wildlife Soap Opera<\/h4>\n

The old Carer had to go spend some time at her brother\u2019s place and she was recounting the wildlife soap opera in the park outside his apartment window. A bunch of flashy green parake… <\/p>\n

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Fastest Paw in the West<\/h4>\n

I used to amuse myself by sitting on the garden wall overlooking the park, watching the Humans cavorting about with balls, or walking their dogs. Like Humans, dogs do like to chase about…<\/p>\n

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Horrors! Vet!<\/h4>\n

Horrors! Yet another visit to the dreaded vet! Once a year I am forced into this carrier box, despite my mewling remonstrations, for a so-called \u2018check-up\u2019, with other visits in-between…<\/p>\n

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Dogs<\/h4>\n

I\u2019ve already mentioned that I like to watch the goings-on in the park. I haven\u2019t yet spoken much about the Dogs. The favoured dog of the Humans around here seems to be that ugly bruiser they…<\/p>\n

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Derrida<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

The philosopher most associated with…<\/p>\n

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Concerns<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

To speak means to come forward and…<\/p>\n

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Ethics<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Among the first to advance an ethical…<\/p>\n

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Anthropocentrism<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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Electric Sheep<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

As a one-time zoologist, I have an enor…<\/p>\n

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Tuti\u2019s Blog<\/p>\n