EVENTS
Kaja Silverman: Flesh of my Flesh
21/11/2007 – 23/11/2007
Kaja Silverman: Flesh of my Flesh
Postponed until 2008
Flesh of My Flesh begins and ends with mediation on mortality and war—in the first chapter through Terrence Malick's film, The Thin Red Line, and in the final chapter through the work of Gerhard Richter. In the intervening
chapters, I return to an earlier moment in time, which could have been the starting point for a different history: one represented by an important group of late 19th and early 20th century artists and writers-Nietzsche, Freud, Rilke, Salomé, Proust, and Modersohn-Becker. What links these moments, and makes them so important for us to revisit, was their preservation of the notion that everything is connected to everything else, after the so-called "death of God". For Rilke, Proust and Salomé, as for Malick and Richter, Being means "beings-as-a-whole", and what constitutes the phenomenal world as a totality is a vast network of unauthored correspondences.
Kaja Silverman is Professor of Rhetoric and Film Studies at Berkeley, University of California. She is currently writing and teaching primarily about phenomenology, psychoanalysis, photography, and time-based visual art, although she still writes and teaches about cinema and has also develop an interest in painting. She maintains a continuing commitment with Feminist Theory, Post-Structuralist Theory, Queer Studies, Masculinity, and Race Theory. Silverman is currently working on two books, both of which follow closely from World Spectators: Flesh of My Flesh and Appropriations. In the first one, she explores what it means to say (as Freud did) that death is the 'aim' of life. She also focuses upon a series on aesthetic texts which move, through an encounter with mortality, toward dramatically different forms of relationality than those so conspicuously on display in the world today. In the second of these books, Silverman rethinks what it means to 'claim' another person or thing.
Schedule
21 November. 18.30-21.00 h.
All Things Shining
Silverman will mediate on mortality and war through Terrence Malick’s film, The Thin Red Line.
22 November. 18.30-21.00 h.
The Twilight of Posterity
In this conference Silverman will talk about the Leonardo exhibition at the Louvre, which included an "intervention" by James Coleman
23 November. 18.30-21.00 h.
Photography by Other Means
In this conference Silverman will analyse the work of Gerhard Richter
Capacity: 100 people.
Registration: Professionals:30 euros; students: 15 euros; members: free
CENDEAC
Pabellón 5. Antiguo Cuartel de Artillería
C/Madre Elisea Oliver, s/n
30002 - Murcia (España)