COGITATION #14
MARINE COGITATION
MEDIA
COGITATION #12
LIVING LIQUID: CURATING THE UNSEEN WITH JENNIFER FRAZIER
MEDIA
LINKS
https://www.exploratorium.edu/about/staff/scientists/jennifer-frazier
All media material Ⓒ Frazierarchive
COGITATION #11
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS CURATOR (BOOK FORUM)
MEDIA WORKS
BOOKS
Sansi, Roger, editor (2020), The Anthropologist As Curator, London: Bloomsbury Publishers.
LOCATION AND CO-SPONSORSHIP
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art (University of California, Davis)IMAGE CREDITS
Book Cover Sansi, Roger, editor (2020), The Anthropologist As Curator, London: Bloomsbury Publishers
COGITATION #10
Alboran Sea With Mohamed Malouli
MEDIA WORKS
BOOKS
Baez, Vazquez, Caminas, and Malouli (editors), Alboran Sea: Ecosystems and Marine Resources (Springer, 2021)
MUSIC & SOUNDS
-Murcof. “Underwater Lamentation” (2021)-Dolphin Vocalizations with ocean waves.-Fishermen Setting out to Sea (Port of M’diq)-Murcof. “Martes” (2018)IMAGE CREDITS
Book Cover Baez, Vazquez, Caminas, and Malouli (editors), Alboran Sea: Ecosystems and Marine Resources (Springer, 2021)
COGITATION #9
A Narrative of Assisted Suicide with Anthony Stavrianakis
MEDIA WORKS
BOOKS
Stavrianakis, Anthony. 2019. Leaving: A Narrative of Assisted Suicide. University of California Press.MUSIC
Intro: “Birds of Flame” (David Lynch & Chrysta Bell, Album: This Train, 2012)Excerpts and Outro: “Life and Death” (Balanescu Quartet, Album: Maria T., 2005)IMAGE CREDITS
Book Cover, Stavrianakis, Anthony. 2019. Leaving: A Narrative of Assisted Suicide. University of California Press.
COGITATION #8
Aby Warburg as a Muse for Contemporary Visual Culture.With Benedetta Cestelli Guidi
MEDIA WORKS
BOOKS
Cestelli Guidi, Benedetta. 2007. “The Correspondence between Franz Boas and Aby Warburg: Two Letters from the Warburg Archive.” Res: Anthropology & Aesthetics, 52: 221-231.
MUSIC
INTRO: “Birds of Flame” / David Lynch & Crysta BellLaurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet, “Dark Side” (Album: Landfall), 2018IMAGE CREDITS
Book displays, Leporello Bookshop, Rome (Credit: Chiara Capodici)
COGITATION #7
LIGHT IN DARK TIMES. PART II: GENEALOGIES OF LIGHT
White Hole, 2008–2010, by Mariko Mori (b. 1967). Acrylic and LED lights. Courtesy of David Sims
Light in Dark Times is a symposium that takes its cue from both contemporary art concerns with illumination and influential political philosopher Hannah Arendt’s meditations on the work of men and women who illuminate us in turbulent times.
The fruit of a collaboration between art historian Marina Pugliese and anthropologist Tarek Elhaik, Light in Dark Times is also a curatorial experiment building on the etymological registers of the term curation (cure, care, incurable).
Transparencies, reflections, shadows, flickers, blinding beams: light and darkness have historically been used in art both as aesthetic and conceptual tools. Indeed, art invites us to rethink various, interconnected traditions of philosophy, art, and science that promise, for better or for worse, both enlightenment and illumination.
Join us for both sessions of the symposium on Sep. 9 and 16.
COGITATION #6
LIGHT IN DARK TIMES. PART I: TRANSPARENT MUSEUMS
White Hole, 2008–2010, by Mariko Mori (b. 1967). Acrylic and LED lights. Courtesy of David Sims
Session I:
Wednesday, Sep 9
9 to 11:30 AM PDT
Light in Dark Times is a symposium that takes its cue from both contemporary art concerns with illumination and influential political philosopher Hannah Arendt’s meditations on the work of men and women who illuminate us in turbulent times.
The fruit of a collaboration between art historian Marina Pugliese and anthropologist Tarek Elhaik, Light in Dark Times is also a curatorial experiment building on the etymological registers of the term curation (cure, care, incurable).
Transparencies, reflections, shadows, flickers, blinding beams: light and darkness have historically been used in art both as aesthetic and conceptual tools. Indeed, art invites us to rethink various, interconnected traditions of philosophy, art, and science that promise, for better or for worse, both enlightenment and illumination.
Join us for both sessions of the symposium on Sep. 9 and 16.
SEE ON YOUTUBE
Light in Dark Times Symposium Session I:Transparent Museums
COGITATION #4
ON MOUMEN SMIHI WITH PETER LIMBRICK
The East Wind, dir. Moumen Smihi (1975)
MEDIA WORKS
BOOKS
Peter Limbrick. Arab Modernism As World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi. University of California Press, 2020.
MUSIC
—-INTRO: “Birds of Flame” / David Lynch & Crysta BellAUDIO EXCERPTS
El Chergui / The East Wind, dir. Moumen Smihi (1975)
44, Or Tales of The Night (1981)Radio Tarifa, Mañana (1996)
COGITATION #3
A WORLD WITHOUT FOOTBALL WITH LUCA CAMINATI
Pier Paolo Pasolini playing football, Rome
Tina Modotti, Stadium, Mexico City, circa 1924
MEDIA WORKS
BOOKS
Marc Augé. Football. Il calcio come fenomeno religioso / Football as a Religious Phenomenon (Lampi), EDB, 2016.
Roland Barthes. What is Sport? (Yale University Press), 2007.
Luca Caminati. Il cinema come happening: Pasolini’s Primitivism and the Sixties Italian Art Scene (2010)
P.P Pasolini. “The Language of Football,” Il Giorno, January 3rd 1971.
MUSIC
—-INTRO: “Birds of Flame” / David Lynch & Crysta BellAUDIO EXCERPTS
-Anthem of Ahly Football Club, Cairo-Soha Mohsen on A World without Football-Paco Gonzales & Manolo Lama comment Zidane’s goal, Real Madrid vs. Bayern Leverkusen, 2003-Excerpt from the film essay Le Sport & Les Hommes (1961) / Text by Roland Barthes-You’ll Never Walk Alone, Liverpool FC anthem.
COGITATION #2
On Avian Reservoirs with Frédéric Keck
Photo credit: Tarek Elhaik
MEDIA WORKS
BOOKS
—-Frédéric Keck. Avian Reservoirs: Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts (Duke University Press, 2020)
MUSIC
—-INTRO: “Birds of Flame” / David Lynch & Crysta Bell—-OUTRO: “The Four Seasons (Summer, Adagio)” / Antonio VivaldiAUDIO EXCERPTS
—–Helen McDonald, author of H is for Hawk (2014), on first person encounters between a falconer and a hawk, Nature on PBS Series.—–Mark Dion on “The Classical Mind (Scala Naturae and Cosmic Cabinet)” and his exhibition “Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2017
