Cabeças raspadas e corpos marcados

Neste artigo de 1993, a historiadora da arte Kristine Stiles discute seu conceito de “culturas do trauma” e seu resultado visual na cultura ocidental. Sugerindo que cabeças raspadas e corpos marcados podem visualizar formas de sofrimento globais, a autora mapeia essas práticas em presentações culturais e ações visuais produzidas em contextos específicos em que o trauma ocorre. Stiles localiza essas representações na tradição judaico-cristã, em culturas alternativas como a dos Skinheads e na arte de artistas romenos contemporâneos, incluindo Lia e Dan Perjovschi. Identificar visualmente os efeitos do trauma, a autora afirma, é o primeiro passo fundamental para entender as estruturas sociais e as representações culturais que inventam e perpetuam violência e destruição, que destroem e danificam identidade, retirando a autonomia do arbítrio humano

John Latham’s cosmos and mid-century representation

The conceptual artist John Latham (1921 – 2006) is sometimes cast as disconnected to the currents of British visual culture. Latham’s idiosyncratic cosmology based upon time and events and incorporating human creativity rather than matter and energy is used to distinguish this disconnection. However, this paper argues that his work can be seen as closely related to that of other mid-century cultural producers who were engaged with alternative cosmic speculations, and part of a broader shift in the register of representation. Papers from the Latham digital archive help make this case

Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art : A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings

"[M]ore than three hundred artists speaking for themselves on issues related to the production and philosophy of contemporary art - has now been updated, revised, and expanded by editor Kristine Stiles to represent thirty countries and more than one hundred new artists" -- p. [4] of cover

Rudolf Schwarzkogler

Watson clarifies Schwarzkogler's link with Hermann Nitsch and other Viennese artists and discusses the artist's "actions" in relation to both avant-gardism, family events, and self-mutilation. Giving special attention to the theme of healing in Schwarzkogler's work, Stiles gives an account of the artist's life and of the contrast between his photographed "tableaux" and performances. 29 bibl. ref

FluxAttitudes/Hecling Catalogue

Literally bound with a checklist of Fluxus works and games compiled by Dwyer, this exhibition catalogue assembles six essays that analyse the Fluxus attitude, events, film, sound works, etc. Includes a transcript of the curators' interview with the absent George Maciunas