#plural self

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Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry

[ojamesy]

Migrant Form : Anti-colonial Aesthetics in Joyce, Rushdie and Ray by Gaurav Majumdar

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Yoko Ono, We Are All Water 118 glass bottles, water, ink on paper, wooden shelve, chair, table, cards, pens.

“water talk you are water I'm water we're all water in different containers that's why it's so easy to meet someday we'll evaporate together but even after the water's gone we'll probably point out to the containers and say, "that's me there, that one." we're container minders”

--Yoko Ono, For Half-A-Wind Show, Lisson Gallery, London 1967.

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Kiki Smith, Untitled, 1987 - 1990

“Smith's work has a long-standing engagement with the body, calling attention to often overlooked aspects of human corporeality and sexuality. This work is composed of glass water-cooler bottles, coated with silver and etched with the names of twelve body fluids. By externalizing and labeling what is usually hidden inside the body—and allowing us to catch our own reflections in the silvered glass—this work emphasizes that we are all, like the bottles, containers for fluid. The German Gothic lettering in which the names are etched is a reference to a medieval book of hours, a Christian prayer book that provided, according to Smith, "some kind of meditation, something you could think about or believe in," for every hour of the day.”

--MoMA 

[ojamesy]

Joyce presents self-division as essential to love. One gives life to one’s beloved by being of two minds about her, thus allowing her to exceed any prior formulation.

Sheldon Brivic, Joyce the Creator