Through the study of exemplary media works and practices - photography; film; video; performance; installations; web cams - scholars from various disciplines call attention to the unsettling of identification and the disablement of vision in contemporary aesthetics. To look at an image that prevents the stabilization of identification; identity and place; to perceive a representation that oscillates between visibility and invisibility; to relate to an image which entails a rebalancing of sight through the valorization of other senses; to be exposed; through surveillance devices; to the gaze of new figures of authority - the aesthetic experiences examined here concern a spectator whose perception lacks in certainty; identification; and opticality what it gains in fallibility; complexity; and interrelatedness. Precarious Visualities provides a new understanding of spectatorship as a relation that is at once corporeal and imaginary; and persistently prolific in its cultural; social; and political effects.Contributors include Raymond Bellour (Eacute;cole des hautes eacute;tudes en sciences sociales); Monika Kin Gagnon (Concordia University); Beate Ochsner (University of Mannheim -Universitauml;t Mannheim); Claudette Lauzon (McGill University); David Tomas (Universiteacute; du Queacute;bec agrave; Montreacute;al); Slavoj Zizek (Ljubljiana University and University of London); Marie Fraser (Universiteacute; du Queacute;bec agrave; Montreacute;al); Alice Ming Wai Jim (Concordia University); Julie Lavigne (Universiteacute; du Queacute;bec agrave; Montreacute;al); Amelia Jones (University of Manchester); Eric Michaud (Eacute;cole des hautes eacute;tudes en sciences sociales); Heacute;legrave;ne Samson (McCord Museum); and Thierry Bardini (Universiteacute; de Montreacute;al).
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Folklore as performanceBy Christopher R. TraversThis short paperback discusses various aspects of verbal art; particularly in the folklore and folktale context; as performance rather than simply as repository of lore. The first essay lays out a basic theory as well as some aspects of performance theory as applied to performances of folktales. The supplemental essays expand on these points and provide examples in action.Although the book is short; it is also dense and rich; providing great opportunities to rethink how we address traditional storytelling. Great book; and if it is of interest; Id also recommend: The Singer of Tales0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. One of the seminal texts about the theme; a ...By Lucio AgraOne of the seminal texts about the theme; a source to the researchs in linguistics and arts fields. It has been also running as a reference to performance art and performance studies.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Three StarsBy Roberto Abdala JuniorThe book featured many highlights.