Thursday, September 30, 2010

10.382 VALIE EXPORT




VALIE EXPORT. AUSTRIAN ARTIST. HER ARTISTIC WORK INCLUDES VIDEO INSTALLATIONS, BODY PERFORMANCES, EXPANDED CINEMA, COMPUTER ANIMATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURES AND PUBLICATIONS. IN 1967, SHE CHANGED HER NAME TO VALIE EXPORT (WRITTEN IN UPPERCASE LETTERS). HER EXAMINATION OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THE POWER RELATIONS INHERENT IN MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS INSCRIBE WOMEN’S BODIES AND CONSCIOUSNESS DISTINGUISHES VALIE EXPORT’S PROJECT. SHE SUBJECTED HER BODY TO PAIN AND DANGER IN ACTIONS DESIGNED. VALIE EXPORT'S GROUNDBREAKING VIDEO PIECE, "FACING A FAMILY" (1971) WAS ONE OF THE FIRST INSTANCES OF TELEVISION INTERVENTION AND BROADCASTING VIDEO ART. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

JACQUES LACAN





JACQUES LACAN FRENCH PSYCHOANALYST AND PSYCHIATRIST WHO MADE PROMINENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY, AND LITERARY THEORY. HIS INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK IS FREUDIAN, FEATURING THE UNCONSCIOUS, THE CASTRATION COMPLEX, THE EGO, IDENTIFICATION, AND LANGUAGE AS SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTION. HIS IDEAS HAVE HAD A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON CRITICAL THEORY, LITERARY THEORY, TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH PHILOSOPHY, SOCIOLOGY, FEMINIST THEORY. THE ANALYTIC FIELD IS THE ONLY PLACE FROM WHICH IT IS POSSIBLE TO QUESTION THE INSUFFICIENCIES OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.