Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony
Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony
by Jane Blocker
University of Minnesota Press, 2009 Paper: 978-0-8166-5477-2 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-5476-5 Library of Congress Classification N8251.S55B55 2009
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jane Blocker is associate professor of art history at the University of Minnesota Press and the author of What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance (Minnesota, 2004) and Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity and Exile.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Imagery Specialists
I. History
1. A Promise Always Disappearing: The Ethics of History in Ulay and Abramovi+'s The Lovers
2. Peoples of Memory: James Luna and the Production of History
3. Binding to Another's Wound: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Ross McElwee on Weddings
II. Technology
4. A Cemetery of Images: Photography and Witness in the Work of Gilles Peress and Alfredo Jaar
5. Machine Memory: Digital Witness in Dumb Type's memorandum
III. Biopower
6. This Being You Must Create: Transgenics, Witness, and Selfhood in the Work of Eduardo Kac and Christine Borland
7. The Shame of Biological Being: Microbiology and Theories of Subjectivity in a Project by Ann Hamilton and Ben Rubin
Conclusion: A Mysterious Picture of God
Notes
Bibliography
Index