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[Nettime-ro] PAVILION lecture - Lara Taubman


PAVILION
Lecture Series (VII)

19 Octombrie 2006, 18.00 hours
American Cultural Center Bucuresti
Str. Jean Louis Calderon, nr.7-9


Lara Taubman, “The Fool”

The Fool is made of two essays and one short fiction story all inspired by True North (2005) by Isaac Julien. The first essay examines the film's main character Vanessa Myrie, a nomad wandering through the blank, icy desert of Antarctica.  Julien uses Myrie to propose new ideas on diaspora  using the ocean as frozen desert and site for migration offering an alternative to Robert Paul Gilroy's ideas of diaspora in the liquid Black Atlantic.   
In a critical reading of Walter Benjamin's essay based on Baudelaire's depiction of the ubiquitous but anonymous urban wanderer of 19th century Paris, The Flaneur, I propose Myrie as today'sflaneur. This flaneur embodies the persona of  Modernist man. The third fictional story applies comparisons discussed in the first two essays between urban/wilderness, inner/outer world, physical/conceptual explorations, etc.  A woman, cheated out of love, searches for her lost identity. Through her torn illusions, she obtains a clear view of what and whom she will be in the future. Like Vanessa Myrie, she is also an explorer seeking identity in the blankness of her own mind where her painful loss reflects into her mind that is blankened by grief.
Her presence in The Fool proposes the feminine subject as indispensable when discussing the future of diaspora and identity. Benjamin's flaneur serves as a reflexive foundation ideal for creating a new person of the future as seen in Vanessa Myrie, a figure who proposes how identity in diaspora can initiate in the female "everyman" rather than a diaspora that is created through reactions to a male dominated patriarchy.
 
Lara Taubman is an art critic and curator based in Phoenix, Arizona. She hold a Master of Arts Degree at NYU. She curated recently “Beauty, Function & Paradox in Downtown Phoenix” and “A Warlike People: Victims or Perpetrators?”. She is permanent contributor of magazines like “Sculpture”, “Spot”, “Art Papers,”Java Magazine”, “Shade Magazine”, “artUS Magazine” and she is newly appointed correspondent for “Artforum.com” and “Artnews” magazines.


Pavilion Lecture Series is produced by PAVILION, contemporary art & culture magazine.
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PAVILION is the producer of BUCHAREST BIENNALE.
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Admission free.

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