Archives for Blog: Musings and Interpretations
Juliana Spahr’s Respiratory Solidarity
(Content warning in NYT image detail for injury). For my post I’d like to offer a brief sketch, a reading of Juliana Spahr’s “poemwrittenafterseptember11/2001.” On September 12th 2001,...
Antonioni’s “Red Desert” : Colors of Madness
My presentation on Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert (1964) was but an attempt to explore this mysterious movie. In this short-written account, I include the structure of my talk as...
Tempest of Industrial Abnature: On John Ruskin’s “Storm-Cloud”
Lerer Long Presentation Tempest of Industrial Abnature: On John Ruskin’s “Storm-Cloud” Today I will be discussing John Ruskin’s late work Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century. The text consists of...
Revolting against the Regime of Fluency in Jordan Scott’s “Valsalvas”
On October 18th, 2020, Lara Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and campaign advisor, did a CNN interview in which she was asked to defend an instance from earlier in the...
AAA-AAA: Breath as Object, Breath as Relation
By: Michael Stablein, Jr. Click here for video recording of my presentation In the title to Marina Abramović and Ulay’s 1978 work of performance, AAA-AAA, we are already presented...
“What is Happening?”: Language and Sound in Jaap Blonk’s “What the President Will Say and Do!!”
“What is Happening?”: Language and Sound in Jaap Blonk’s “What the President Will Say and Do!!” Cecily Chen At the beginning of his 2004 performance “What the President Will...
Zong!: Between the Text and the Performance
In this conference paper, I will analyze the relationship between the text and the performance of Zong!, by Marlene NourbeSe Philip (2011). Firstly I will introduce the author; secondly,...