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Explores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing,
through contemporary art In Out of Breath, Caterina Albano examines
the cultural significance of breath and air to a wide array of
forces in our midst, including economy, politics, infection, and
ecological violence. Through a consideration of recent art
practices and projects, including the dance project Breath
Catalogue, which makes visible the breathing patterns of dancers,
and Forensic Architecture's Cloud Studies video, which investigates
eight different kinds of clouds from airstrikes to herbicides to
tear gas, Albano focuses on breath as both an intuitive process and
a conveyer of meanings. Conceived in response to the Covid-19
pandemic and systemic inequalities that it has laid bare, Out of
Breath shows the potential of artistic practices to mobilize affect
as a form of cultural and political critique. Forerunners is a
thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written
between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on
scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference
plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange.
This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change,
and speculation take place in scholarship.
Throughout this book we discover what our idea of memory would be
without the moving image. This thought provoking analysis examines
how the medium has informed modern and contemporary models of
memory. The book examines the ways in which cinematic optic
procedures inform an understanding of memory processes. Critical to
the reciprocity of mind and screen is forgetting and the
problematic that it inscribes into memory and its relation to
contested histories. Through a consideration of artworks
(film/video and sound installation) by artists whose practice has
consistently engaged with issues surrounding memory, amnesia and
trauma, the book brings to bear neuro-psychological insight and its
implication with the moving image (as both image and sound) to a
consideration of the global landscape of memory and the politics of
memory that inform them. The artists featured include Kerry Tribe,
Shona Illingworth, Bill Fontana, Lutz Becker, Yervant Gianikian and
Angela Ricci Lucchi, Harun Faorcki, and Eyal Sivan.
Aphra Behn is usually described as England's first professional
woman writer, but her contemporary Hannah Woolley (Wooley or
Wolley) ran her close, though recipes not bodice-rippers were her
speciality (mixed with some judicious teaching, housekeeping and
medical marketing). It seems amazing, therefore, that apart from a
slight compendium, nothing of hers is available today - when
women's studies have so strong a following. Her output is confusing
and disputed, even the portrait in this second edition of her book
is not of her but one Sarah Gilly, but all is made clearer by the
long introduction by Caterina Albano, who has studied women's
domestic literature for this period, and who urged us to produce
this new, unabridged setting of the book (it is not a facsimile).
The Companion is a conduct- as well as cookery-book (the recipes
are mainly derived from her earlier works). It also contains an
autobiography of the author. In truth it is a rank, but
captivating, miscellany, including recipes, medical prescriptions,
advice to servants and governesses, hints on upbringing, cosmetics
and education, rules of social comportment and conduct,
instructions and model letters for correspondence (mainly for young
ladies), and 'Pleasant Discourses and Witty Dialogues' between
gentlemen and ladies. Great bedtime reading. The editor puts it all
in long perspective.
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