Balsamo, Anne; Technologies of the Genered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (1996) ICI Shelf: Body Last Line: “The body also serves as the locus for thinking differently about both feminist histories and feminist futures, and the political aims of feminist cultural criticism more broadly.” ICI History: … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Technologies of the Gendered Body
Owens, Craig. Beyond Recognition (1992) ICI Shelf: Philosophy First Line: “If you take a modernist and draw a line and say, I dare you to cross that line, the modernist will cross it.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (12-08-12)
ACCESSION #: 22123-d TITLE: Spread from the Portuguese newspaper Expresso reporting on the rescue of the 33 Chilean miners on October 13, 2010 LOCATION: Ephemera Kabinett (Internet document) DISCUSSION: Expresso did not simply represent but also enacted the rescue of the miners through a simple visual … Continue readingEPHEMERA KABINETT: Coverage of Chilean Miners’ Rescue in Expresso Newspaper (digital)
Ault, Julie; ed. Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1991) ICI Shelf: Artist Monographs First Line: “I want to begin this book by telling you that I knew Felix Gonzalez-Torres well.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (12-02-12)
Jarman, Derek Blue: Das Buch zum Film (1994) ICI Shelf: London First Line: “You say to the boy open your eyes” Last Line: “I place a delphinium, Blue, upon your grave.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed: Last Line (12-03-11); First Line … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: BLUE
A program for an exhibition organized by Daniel Cornell at the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1995 to coincide with the Day Without Art on December 1, World AIDS Day. Today, Visual AIDS prefers to emphasize the people, especially artists, who are living with HIV and … Continue readingPlague in Virgil’s “Georgics” Pamphlet
This is a sound mirror in Denge, UK. Over the years we have continually bumped up against these concrete ears. Their initial 1920s function (to hear approaching enemy aircraft) was quickly usurped by advances in radar but the mirrors have endured in their second, off-label … Continue readingSound mirrors