Hi, it's me, anu.

[hiitsanu]

Reading List Draft 3

Currently Reading:

Stewart, Kathleen. “Ordinary Affects.”

Ahmed, Sara. “The Cultural Politics of Emotion”

Moten, Fred. “The Undercommons”

Butler, Octavia. “Lilith’s Brood”

To Read:

Ahmed, Sara. “The Promise of Happiness”

Anzaldúa, Gloria E., Keating, AnaLouise “This Bridge We Call Home”

Anzaldúa, Gloria E., “This Bridge Called My Back”

Dean, Tim et. al. “Porn Archives”.

Gregg, Melissa et. al. “The Affect Theory Reader”.

Halberstam, Jack. “Queer Art of Failure”.

Lord, Catherineet. al. “Art and Queer Culture”. N72.H64 L67

Munoz, Juan. “Cruising Utopia”

Nelson, Maggie. “Bluets”.

Art and Queer Culture

Rodrigues, Juana Maria. “ Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings”.

Read:

Rankine, Claudia. “Citizen”

Lakshmi, Leah. “Dirty River”

Haraway, Donna. “The Cyborg Manifesto”

[chaosophia218]

Vincenzo Cartari - Sol et Luna, “Le Imagini dei Degli Antichi”, 1608.

[hiitsanu]

Reading List Draft 2

Currently Reading:

Stewart, Kathleen. “Ordinary Affects.”

To Read:

Ahmed, Sara. “The Promise of Happiness”

Ahmed, Sara. “The Cultural Politics of Emotion”

Anzaldúa, Gloria E.. “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza”

Anzaldúa, Gloria E., Keating, AnaLouise “This Bridge We Call Home”

Anzaldúa, Gloria E., “This Bridge Called My Back”

Dean, Tim et. al. “Porn Archives”.

Gregg, Melissa et. al. “The Affect Theory Reader”.

Halberstam, Jack. “Queer Art of Failure”.

Harraway, Donna. “Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.”

Lord, Catherineet. al. “Art and Queer Culture”. N72.H64 L67

Munoz, Juan. “Cruising Utopia”

Nelson, Maggie. “Bluets”.

Art and Queer Culture

Rodrigues, Juana Maria. “ Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings”.

Read:

Rankine, Claudia. “Citizen”

Lakshmi, Leah. “Dirty River”

[hiitsanu]

Arne Bendik Sjur

Self Portrait, 1995

Source: http://samling.nasjonalmuseet.no/no/object/NG.K.H.1995.0403

[dappledwithshadow]

Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857-1922) Bend of a River at Sunset c.1898

woodcut printed in colors

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4. Klasse / 4th Grade by Kari Steihaug

Source: http://www.karisteihaug.no/default.pl?showPage=189

[jeffknopf]

Orbits #woodcut #saint #mask #art ##mumming

[ashmoleanmuseum]

Painter, printmaker and theorist Albrecht Dürer was born on this day in 1471.

Regarded as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance, he is known for his incredibly detailed engravings as well as altarpieces and portraits.

Dürer’s celestial maps were the first star charts ever printed. This woodcut, engraved by Albrecht Dürer, shows the southern sky.

[vertigo1871]

Eric Gill, St. Anthony, 1926

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[saisonciel]

Unknown model, 1904

[clothilde-sourdeval]

“ Une pierre ”, 30cm x 30cm , dry point , 2016

[hiitsanu]

Reading List - Draft 1

Ahmed, Sara. “The Promise of Happiness”

Ahmed, Sara. “The Cultural Politics of Emotion” 

Anzaldúa, Gloria E.. “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza”

Anzaldúa, Gloria E., Keating, AnaLouise “This Bridge We Call Home”

Anzaldúa, Gloria E., “This Bridge Called My Back”

Dean, Tim et. al. “Porn Archives”.

Gregg, Melissa et. al. “The Affect Theory Reader”.

Halberstam, Jack. “Queer Art of Failure”.

Harraway, Donna. “Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.”

Lord, Catherineet. al. “Art and Queer Culture”. N72.H64 L67

Munoz, Juan. “Cruising Utopia”

Nelson, Maggie. “Bluets”.

Art and Queer Culture

Ordinary Affects by Kathleen Stewart

Rankine, Claudia. “Citizen”

Rodrigues, Juana Maria. “ Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings”.

[hyperallergic]

“At the end of "Eva Hesse,” the new documentary about her life and work currently playing at @filmforumnyc, my immediate feeling was that it seemed incomplete somehow, or that some satisfying, cohesive takeaway was missing. This was quickly followed by the realization that in this and many other ways, director#MarcieBegleiter successfully immerses the viewer in Hesse’s psyche, so that when the end comes it is sudden and very difficult to process.“

“Eva Hesse” is playing at Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, West Village, Manhattan) through May 12.

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Red-hot in the ’60s, now little known, the great artist Marisol is being rediscovered - The Boston Globe

Proudly independent, Marisol did not fit into any of the ’60s retrospectively sanctified movements. And yet she played a key role in shaping a cultural shift away from mid-century, atomic-age existentialism (epitomized in art by Abstract Expressionism) toward the visual pizzazz, double-edged irony, and deadpan distillations of Pop. A fascinating, complex figure, she has waited a long time for the resurgence of interest in her work that is now underway.

[hiitsanu]

I’ve been thinking a lot about how the idea of “comfort” and “safety” come up when talking about spaces intending to be “radical” or anti-normative. I think a focus on comfort and safety often misses the point...similar to having conversations which are focused on being “good people” (e.i. using the right words, having the right political beliefs).

Discomfort is where learning happens. Discomfort is where change happens. I don’t want to always be comfortable...or uncomfortable for that matter. But I think it’s about finding a balance and not always aiming to make spaces comfortable or “safe”.... this needs more fleshing out....

"Comfort can be a routine or a pattern. Comfort can be abusive relationships. Comfort can be escapism. Comfort can be denial. Comfort can get ugly. But there is an exit door - walk through it. And even if you can't walk through it, pick yourself up and walk towards it. Remind yourself it's a choice. And maybe today you just sit, lay, or stare in front of the door - but tomorrow the choice is still there and you'll be that much closer." art+write-up by Jenna Knapp