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Who Am I? Who Are We? What Are We?
“Towards the end of his life, Aimé Césaire has declared that the question he and his friend Léopold Sédar Senghor came to raise after they first met was: ‘Who am I? Who are we? What are we in this...
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The Materials of the Situation
“The interest is not in consciousness and its freedom, but in the production of new situations as an end in themselves” (Wark 58). In The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark introduces the many...
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Invitations and Infiltrations
In my research on Fluxus, I found that the movement had two main goals: (1) to challenge elite art institutions and to (2) meld art and life so that they are inseparable. In order to blur these...
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Mapping the Lovers’ Derive
“I’m your audience, and you’re mine” (Bernstein 96). In All the King’s Horses, Michele Bernstein portrays an open marriage between Genevieve and Gilles. They meet a young woman, Carole, whom they are...
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The Spectacle and Surprise
“Our synaptic network is momentarily disrupted when we are truly surprised, as our brain scrambles to figure out what is going on. This is not a sinister experience; it is a moment of openness and...
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Rehearsing Revolution
In our first blog posts, we were asked to respond to the question “Can art be subversive? Can it have real political impact?” For me, the answer was always yes. But reading Yates McKee’s “Occupy and...
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UWM Spring Awards
During the last week of classes, the English department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee holds an awards ceremony recognizing undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty for...
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Reflections on Surrealism & Revolution
Throughout this course, I’ve gained an appreciation for and an awareness of the importance of the collective in artistic action. Mixed in with these observations, however, is the realization that...
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A Weekend on Washington Island
Last weekend my friend and I took our canine companions for a road trip to Washington Island in northern Wisconsin. To get there, we drove along the peninsula, then took a ferry. Abe loves the water,...
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