Christina Lammer: Günter Brus. Kleine Narbenlehre: eine Leibgeschichte in drei Akten [German]

“Günter Brus’ Kleine Narbenlehre ist eine Folge von acht bisher unpublizierten Fotografien, vom Künstler jeweils mit einem kurzen, prägnanten Text versehen. Die Bilder zeigen Günter Brus in den Tagen nach einer schweren Operation (1999), noch als Patient, seine Narben, seine diversen Verschlauchungen. Ausgehend von dieser Bildfolge versucht Christina Lammer in diesem Buch die Nahtstelle zwischen dem selbst-bestimmten Körper des Künstlers in seinen Aktionen der Sechziger- und Siebzigerjahre und seiner Fremdbestimmung im medizinischen Kontext eines Krankenhauses, in dem er operiert wurde, kenntlich zu machen. Betonte Brus in seinen Selbstbemalungen und -verletzungen die Mittellinie des eigenen Leibs, markiert fast vierzig Jahre später eine Narbe, die vom Brustbein bis zum Unterbauch reicht, als Spur einer Krebsoperation seinen Oberkörper. Zwei Strukturen werden inhaltlich in Beziehung zu einander gesetzt: Narben und Schläuche. Aktionsskizzen und -partituren des Wiener Aktionisten werden analysiert und mit Fotos der durchgeführten Aktionen verglichen, um Aussagen über die Körpersprache sowie die Konditionierung des eigenen Leibs zu treffen.”

Foreword by Cathrin Pichler
Publisher Löcker, Vienna, 2007
ISBN 9783854094425
296 pages
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Sensate: A Journal for Experiments in Critical Media Practice (2012-)

Sensate is a peer-reviewed, issueless, open-access, media-based journal for the creation, presentation, and critique of innovative projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Its mission is to provide a scholarly and artistic forum for experiments in critical media practices that expand academic discourse by taking us beyond the margins of the printed page. Fundamental to this expansion is a re-imagining of what constitutes a work of scholarship or art.

Editors-in-Chief: Lindsey Lodhie, Peter McMurray, Joana Pimenta, and Elizabeth Watkins
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Mary Strong, Laena Wilder (eds.): Viewpoints: Visual Anthropologists at Work (2009)

“Early in its history, anthropology was a visual as well as verbal discipline. But as time passed, visually oriented professionals became a minority among their colleagues, and most anthropologists used written words rather than audiovisual modes as their professional means of communication. Today, however, contemporary electronic and interactive media once more place visual anthropologists and anthropologically oriented artists within the mainstream. Digital media, small-sized and easy-to-use equipment, and the Internet, with its interactive and public forum websites, democratize roles once relegated to highly trained professionals alone. However, having access to a good set of tools does not guarantee accurate and reliable work. Visual anthropology involves much more than media alone.

This book presents visual anthropology as a work-in-progress, open to the myriad innovations that the new audiovisual communications technologies bring to the field. It is intended to aid in contextualizing, explaining, and humanizing the storehouse of visual knowledge that university students and general readers now encounter, and to help inform them about how these new media tools can be used for intellectually and socially beneficial purposes.

Concentrating on documentary photography and ethnographic film, as well as lesser-known areas of study and presentation including dance, painting, architecture, archaeology, and primate research, the book’s fifteen contributors feature populations living on all of the world’s continents as well as within the United States. The final chapter gives readers practical advice about how to use the most current digital and interactive technologies to present research findings.”

Text Editor: Mary Strong
Visual Editor: Laena Wilder
Publisher University of Texas Press, 2009
ISBN 0292706715, 9780292706712
384 pages

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