{"id":660,"date":"2016-04-01T22:19:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T05:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comma-wordpress.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=660"},"modified":"2016-08-24T22:23:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T05:23:15","slug":"660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"“Red Deserts: a Color Without Substance,” a talk by Professor Tarek Elhaik (UC Davis)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Please join us for COMMA’s first event of the Winter Quarter. We will continue our investigation of “The Desert of the Real” on Friday, April 8th at 1:00 in South Hall 2623 with a talk by Tarek Elhaik. Professor Elhaik is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, where he also runs and curates AIL (the Anthropology of the Image Lab). He has published articles in various journals and anthologies, and is the author of The Incurable Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film & Media Arts<\/em> (Edimburgh University Press, February 2016). As always, snacks and drinks will be provided.<\/p>\n

This talk stems from a series of encounters with artists\u00a0whose \u201cEarth\u201d is grounded in what Elhaik calls a \u201cgeo-curation.\u201d Among these artists is Michelangelo Antonioni whose 1964 classic\u00a0Technicolor filmRed Desert<\/i> will as our point of departure. By combining anthropological theories of color (Taussig, 2009; Levi-Strauss, 1964) and Deleuze\u2019s meditation on Antonioni\u2019s \u201cgeophysics,\u201d the talk remediates and reconfigures Earth as an enduring form and \u201cincurable-image\u201d (Elhaik, 2016) of the so-called Anthropocene. By assembling images from Red Desert<\/i> alongside those of Robert Smithson’s earthwork Spiral Jetty<\/i> (1970) and Tareq Teguia\u2019s film Inland<\/i> (2008) Antonioni\u2019s geo-curation emerges as a human practice that inhabits the world as a desert without a substance.<\/p>\n

Suggested readings for the talk include<\/u>:<\/p>\n

Deleuze, Gilles. \u201cOn The Time-Image\u201d <\/em>in Negotiations<\/em> (New York: Columbia U. Press) p. 57-61.<\/p>\n

Elhaik, Tarek. \u201cRome-Algiers-Bahia: A Bloc of Sensation In Lieu of Geography\u201d in in Sweet Sixties:\u00a0Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-garde<\/em>. Georg Sch\u00f6llhammer & Ruben Arevshatyan eds.\u00a0 Sternberg\u00a0Press (2014): 217-228. (Attached)<\/p>\n

Taussig, Michael. What Color is the Sacred?<\/em> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), p. 3-12<\/p>\n

Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Raw and the Cooked<\/em>. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970 [1964]), p. 18-20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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