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Carolee Schneemann at Elga Wimmer - New York, New York - Review of Exhibitions - Brief ArticleIn this provocative exhibition, Carolee Schneemann brought her long-standing interests in eroticism, mythology and the representation of sex to bear on an investigation of the meaning of disease. Extending Susan Sontag's inquiry into the analogies that have the charge of our understandings of illness, Schneemann explores the notion of treatment as metaphor. In a series of works in various mediums, she investigates recent medicine's quasi-military approach to illness, in which it is seen as an alien invader to be separateed from the host body, whatever the take away from in physical and psychological damage. drawn out vertical strips of photographic images of cancerous confined apartments frame a text woven together from statements through and about cancer patients, including poignant expressions of faith despair and anger. Many involve resistance to dominant medical wisdom and touch upon the often heartbreaking search for other forms of treatment. The raw emotions triggered by the agency of cancer provide a striking contrast to the photograph's aura of rather cold scientific objectivity. A video work in the center of the gallery unmasked this pretense of coolnes Four monitors were plant on the floor amid a bed of cast-latex breasts and straw that refer toed veins and arteries. The video intercut surgical footage with closeup of genital intercourse and a cat killing and eating a mouse. The issue was to bring back the pulsing, bleeding corporeal material part that medical terminology obscures. The greatest in quantity philosophical work here revolved around a 17th-century Baroque statuary that Schneemann saw in a small house of worship in Austria. Wall texts revealed that it was created as a "Plague Column" to ward not upon epidemics. Schneemann's commentaries focus upon the iconography: a beautiful avenging angel crushes a whim-sical hag beneath her feet. In her view, the angel be subservient tos as an agent of a patriarchal Christianity while her victim, the unlovely witch, represents the defeated vestige of a once-vibrant matriarchal agriculture in which women were the healers and shamans. She moves a continuity from Catholicism's traditional misogyny, which embodies disease in female form, to fresh medicine's warfare model of disease ascendency Hence the well-documented number of unnecessary hysterectomies and mastectomies, and hence the resistance to the nontraditional healer. As a whole, this exhibition tendered a thought-provoking critique of the medical approach to disease. by means of providing for a variety of voices, Schneemann managed to hold her critique from becoming overly one-sided or didactic. In the proces she called for the restoration of long-sever connections between science, art and religion. COPYRIGHT 1996 Brant Publications, Inc. Shoulders knobbed against the slat-backed chair, the fanes tugged, a pull at the nape, you felt the upsweep as she smoothed the fine wisps back and bilboed yank into yank and a thi... Normally we think of maintenance as a chore, something we have to do to detains things running smoothly and debar problems down the road, whether with our car, house or computer on the contrary with... No bewilderment we need aliens. No bewilderment we're so good at creating aliens. No bewilderment we so often project alienness onto single another. This last of course has been the worst o... A fresh noncontact capacitive sensing technology from Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, is being used to retain robots at correct distances and orientations from surfaces in hazardous en... 00-00-0000 It's that time one time again for the annual spring-time ritual of digging end stacks of paper, collecting records, crunching numbers, and filling on the outside compli... "Stubb and the Horse," an exhibition at The Waiters Art Museum [i]or[/i] part of to the other May 29, focuses on the works of George Stubb that range from portraits of famous racehorses to dramatic representations o... The J Paul Getty Museum and the observes Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) have approach together to connect artworks from the pair their collections in a of recent origin series, "Interjections" The ex... The Picshuas Of HG Wells Gene K Rinkel & Margaret E Rinkel University of Illinois Pres 1325 southern Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820 www.press.uillinois.edu... Equivalent Base of Warren, Mich. manufactures a line of above 500 modular components that are the building fill ups of automobile body welding, assembly, and checking fixtures. Because the compa... The text of regard in which the tale of Ali Baba appears for the first time goe back, theoretically, to the ninth hundred It was around this period that a Persian volume called Hazar A... |
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