“Nothing Is Missing”: Video Heteroglossias
Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.plUniversity of Lodz (Poland)
Tomasz Majewski
University of Lodz (Poland)
Abstract
The article deals with large screen installation Nothing is missing by the Dutch theoretician Mieke Bal. The installation consists of a cycle of videos of immigrant mothers from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. The videos problematize the issue of the experience of cultural alienation/otherness. The positions of “exoticism” and “intimacy” of family meetings are mediated and then abolished - they are shown to be falsely assumed opposites of the expected. The authors consider this installation in the phenomenological and aesthetic dimensions, and in the context of Mieke Bal’s theoretical assertions dealing with the issue of ethnic representations and post-structuralist narratology with its issue of the “embodied voice”. They point to the source of inspiration for the video series, that is the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin and Kaja Silverman and the categories of heteroglossia and heteropathic identification created in order to describe the situation of meeting with the Other.
Keywords:
Mieke Bal, video art, Mikhail Bakhtin, Kaja SilvermanReferences
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Authors
Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Lodz Poland
Historyk sztuki i estetyk, adiunkt w Instytucie Filozofii Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego; zajmuje się problematyką sztuki nowoczesnej i krytyki sztuki, w szczególności historią angloamerykańskiego formalizmu. Autorka przekładów prac Martina Jaya, Rosalind Krauss, Anne Friedberg, Andreasa Huyssena.
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Tomasz MajewskiUniversity of Lodz Poland
Kulturoznawca i filmoznawca, wykłada w Instytucie Kultury Współczesnej Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. Zajmuje się teorią kultury popularnej, badaniami nad kulturą wizualną i reprezentacjami Holocaustu. Redaktor tomów Rekonfiguracje modernizmu. Nowoczesność i kultura popularna (2009), Pamięć Shoah. Kulturowe reprezentacje i praktyki upamiętnienia (II wyd. 2011). Autor książki Dialektyczne feerie. Szkoła frankfurcka i kultura popularna (2011).
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