Event overview
GLITS (Goldsmiths Literature Seminar)
Carlos Sapochnik, 'Drawing as the sight of absence'
While observational drawing is traditionally considered an art form and therefore an aesthetic practice, this project foregrounds drawing as visual ethnographic research towards making sense of observed organizational situations where the observer is (inevitably) a participant. Drawing refers both to the artefact (noun) and to the act of representation (verb). Such recordings are immediate and, once made, tend to be left uncorrected. If made from memory, they have the potential to be connected with the capacity to play, circumventing and also engaging self-censorship towards a thicker description of a situation. Hence, the research proposes inhabiting a self-assured uncertainty, closer to the poetry of psychoanalysis and dreaming than the conviction (a term related to imprisonment) of a truth without contradictions.
Ines Lozano (Goldsmiths), 'The Female Maker of Meaning vs. the Male Bearer of Meaning: Scopophilia and Patriarchy in Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo
Following Laura Mulvey’s article 'Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema', this paper aims at analysing the concept of scopophilia in relation to the bearer/maker of meaning dichotomy in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo. In Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo we find a meta-filmic work where a woman (Cecilia) creates through her imagination the man of her dreams (Tom Baxter). Cecilia’s disastrous personal and professional situation prompt her to seek evasion in the movie theatre, where she falls in love with one of the characters, Tom Baxter, charming, caring, innocent and respectful. It is through the act of looking at the screen of the movie theatre that Cecilia can create this concept of masculinity. Going to the movies gives Cecilia the pleasure of evasion and imagination; and it is through pleasure that she constructs a new concept of masculinity that clashes with that of reality, where she is a victim of a dominant and male chauvinistic husband. The act of going to the movies is thus, an act of challenge where the roles of patriarchy are inverted. The movie theatre becomes a place of creation, where art triggers the imagination and questions established values. Cecilia, as a movie-goer, rebuilds her own identity as an alternative to Mulvey’s concept of the woman as a bearer of meaning and patriarchy. Through the application of Mulvey’s dichotomy and the concept of scopophilia, this paper aims at uncovering to what extent does Woody Allen presents art as a transformative tool of society, and to what extent he uses film to overthrow patriarchy.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 9 Feb 2017 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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