Full Description
Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.
Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies assembled in this volume span a range of media from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, performance, architecture, and video. Importantly, they both examine and enact ventriloqual practices, and do so as a means of interrogating and performatively bearing out contemporary conceptions of authorship, subjectivity, and performance. Put otherwise, the chapters in this book oscillate seamlessly between art history, theory, and criticism through both analytical and performative means. Across twelve essays on ventriloquism in contemporary art, the authors, who are curators, historians, and artists, shine light on this outdated practice, repositioning it as a conspicuous and meaningful trend within a range of artistic practices today.
This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, media studies, performance, museum/curatorial studies, and theater.
Contents
Introduction: Voiceovers
Jennie Hirsh and Isabelle Wallace
1. Voice, Vivification, and Subjectivity: Jasper Johns Ventriloquist
Isabelle Loring Wallace
2. Over My Dead Body: Puppets, Performance, and Paralysis in Cardiff and Miller's The Marionette Maker
Jennie Hirsh
3. Not All Objects that Look Have Eyes
Courtney McClellan
4. Dislocated Voices: Wael Shawky's Cabaret Crusades
Kate O'Connor
5. García's Games (1978-1979): Puppets, Trauma, Immunity
Juan Guerrero-Hernandez
6. Dialectic Silence: Schizophonia in Juan Muñoz's Ventriloquist Dummy
Cintia Gutiérrez Reyes
7. Tadeusz Kantor's Dead Dummies
Katie Geha
8. I remember: On Modern Living
Nora Wendl
9. Embolalia
Jane Blocker
10. Re-Siting Marx
Kerr Houston
11. In a Manner of Speaking
Catherine Clover
12. The Lithic Record
Nina Elder and nicholas b. jacobsen
