Saturday, May 27, 2006

27/05-NY13 learning informe

The Critical STudies Program Symposium on thurs is great, not just for the snacks in the break between sessions. I heard one on the victimhood of NY ground Zero memorial, interesting is her readings of the descending of the present design and the recovery back on street level with the future tower in sight. It is really timing for the first of the bldg at ground zero just opened earlier in the week, while funding or scale for the memorial is still in heated debate.
From the Harvard professor response, I also grasp what the first presenter has discuss about the Multiculturalism paradox in Museology. The black scholars, just as the one I encountered in Philly, are so often working so directly on black studies, even around the columbia university or here, there are sometimes bk stalls in the street, which sells only black (or black studies) literature.
The first presenter in the second session talked about the installation, not too clear the outline, but it touched on the thread of the paradox of museology, which I am using on Jeff's exhibition, so more on this later.
The second presenter has tried to combine her urban studies with the insight from Krauss' Informe, which suddenly give me insight in how to comphrend the otherwise strange bk. The last presenter try to argue from some body politics view on Sol LeWitt's classic work of the square with the body. yet it is again the responder, this time from Princeton, that asked some harsh question, asking the speaker to try imagine if her thesis is able to be formulate without even those fetishism discourse (which freud centered around the mother's absent of the penis), for it missed the kind of simplistic look at and understanding in/relevance to Sol LeWitt's work.

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