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Week 3: Body and the Archive
- Day 1 [Tues Feb 1]:
Reading:
"Body and the Archive" by Allan Sekula
Screening:
"Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained" (1976)
by Martha Rosler
Lecture notes and see questions in references:
- Day 2 [Thurs Feb 3]:
Present: Franky Brian Guttman
"Carving: A Traditional Sculpture" by Eleanor Antin
"Post-Partum Document" by Mary Kelly
Interview with Mary Kelly (pdf)
Self-Portraits by Francesca Woodman
"Ftp_Formless_Anatomy" by Eugene Hacker
http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?1699
References/ Recommended Reading
Which two opposing tendencies for the use of photography at the time of its emergence can you point out?
Who was Jeremy Bentham and how is his panopticum best described?
What is phrenology and how was it first applied by Alphonse Bertillon?
What is eugenics and how was photography used in its service?
Who was Francis Galton and what does his idea of social betterment through breeding stand for?
How do you interpret the following quote from the end of Sekula's essay?
"...our problem as artists and intellectuals is ... to prevent the cancellation of [unheard voices] by more authoritative and official texts."
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