Seeing witness : visuality and the ethics of testimony /
The act of bearing witness can reveal much, but what about the figure of the witness itself? As contemporary culture is increasingly dominated by surveillance, the witness--whether artist, historian, scientist, government official, or ordinary citizen--has become empowered in realms from art to poli...
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University of Minnesota Press,
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| ISBN: | 9780816668045 0816668043 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Imagery specialists
- I. History. A promise always disappointing: the ethics of history in Ulay and Abramović's The lovers ; Peoples of memory: James Luna and the production of history ; Binding to another's wound: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Ross McElwee on weddings
- II. Technology. A cemetery of images: photography and witness in the work of Gilles Peress and Alfredo Jaar ; Machine memory: digital witness in Dumb Type's memorandum
- III. Biopower. This being you must create: transgenics, witness, and selfhood in the work of Eduardo Kac and Christine Borland ; The shame of biological being: microbiology and theories of subjectivity in a project by Ann Hamilton and Ben Rubin
- Conclusion: A mysterious picture of God.