This text addresses the question of cultural marginalization - the process through which various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. An anthology that juxtaposes diverse points of view on issues of gender, race, sexual preference, and class, it takes up the fundamental issues raised when attempts are made ...
In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, award-winning filmmaker and theorist Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, Trinh examines Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of ...
Film maker and feminist thinker Trinh T. Minh-ha is one of the most powerful and articualate voices in independent filmmaking. In her writings and interviews, as well as in her filmscripts, Trinh explores what she describes as the 'infinite relation' of word to image. Cinema Interval brings together her recent conversations on film and art, music ...
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha came of age as an artist in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1970s, a decade of enormous artistic, cultural, social and political transformation. Despite her untimely and tragic death, she created an extraordinarily rich and complex body of work that reflected the profound developments of her time and place - including the ...
Produced at the intersection of creative and critical practices, Trinh's films situate themselves between poetry and politics, art and theory, ficiton and documentary, and truth and fact. They resist the comfort of categorisation, and engage the reader in a reflective process of seeing, hearing and co-producing. Framer Frames brings together for ...
Endless travel in cyberspace, virtual reality, and the dream of limitless speed: technology changes our sense of self. In this new book, Trinh Minh-ha explores the way technology transforms our perception of reality. "We are all engaged in social rituals in our daily activities," she writes, "and by remaining unaware of their artistic ritual ...
The term "body art" often conjures rude images of radical piercings and raunchy tattoos on "modern primitives." Here artist Jean Paul Bourdier applies his skills to a completely different task: to create haunting photographic images that allow viewers to see the environment from inside out by painting the bodies of models, thereby making them one ...
This 'life-in-architecture' study displays the world view and the socio-economic and cosmological organization of several African peoples, including the Fulbe, Tokolor, Sereer, Joola, Soninke, Mandingo, Jaxanke, and Bassari. Bourdier and Trinh connect setting, design, decoration, and orientation to kinship, gender, history, oral traditions, poetry ...
In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, award-winning film-maker and theorist Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, Trinh Minh-ha examines Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions ...
Produced at the intersection of creative and critical practices, Tinh Min-ha's films situate themselves between poetry and politics, art and theory, fiction and documentary, and truth and fact. They resist the comfort of categorization, and engage the reader in a reflective process of seeing, hearing and co-producing. This book brings together the ...
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