Essays about: "reparative reading"

Found 3 essays containing the words reparative reading.

  1. 1. Instructions for a Walk Off Line : stanley brouwn’s deviations from the norm as a strategy for arts bureaucracy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Rosa Simone Paardenkooper; [2023]
    Keywords : Arts bureaucracy; stanley brouwn; Fluxus; Conceptual Art; deviation; off line; disorientation; reparative reading; inclusion; instruction;

    Abstract : Instructions for a Walk Off Line engages in a reparative reading of Fluxus and Conceptual artworks, with a focus on the practice of stanley brouwn, to outline a set of strategies for contemporary artists to approach the role of bureaucracy in mediating their relationship with art institutions. This research starts from the observation that modern and contemporary art museums are increasingly invested in inviting underrepresented artists into their spaces without engaging in the necessary structural changes to meet their conditions for being included. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Devil Led Us to the Wrong Crib : Paranoid and Reparative Reading in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Berfin Sekerci; [2020]
    Keywords : Attachment theory; Jeanette Winterson; Melanie Klein; mother-daughter relationship;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes the issues of attachment between Jeanette Winterson and her adoptive mother in the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. My argument is that the memoir demonstrates a movement from what Sedgwick calls the paranoid position of reading to the reparative position. READ MORE

  4. 3. Whatever happens, I will never sell the mountains - A reparative analysis of the temporal, political, emotional and intellectual aspects of crafting

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Linnea Isberg; [2015-09-09]
    Keywords : crafting; chrononormativity; tacit knowledge; embodiment; time; reparative reading; writing; economization of time;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to investigate time and the values connected to different uses of time. What use is legitimate, and what is seen as a waste of time? I will argue that a general notion of time as ‘bad’ or ‘useless’ will place objects, subjects and practices in the marginal, but also establish what should be seen as important or not, which makes us value things into good and bad, effective and ineffective, worthwhile and useless. READ MORE