Arts in Circulation
Virtual Museums of Forbidden Memories: Hu Jie’s Documentary Films on the Cultural Revolution
The day after Bian Zhongyun, vice principal of a girls’ middle school in Beijing, was beaten to death by her students on August 5, 1966, her husband, Wang Jingyao, bought a camera and took pictures of her bruised, distended, and naked body.Atanarjuat and the Ideological Work of Contemporary Indigenous Filmmaking
Multiculturalism effectively demands that American Indians put their indigeneity on display. While it prohibits Euro-Americans from playing Indian, it requires that the Indians themselves play Indian to help legitimate the multiculturalist democracies…The Thing Itself
In some way, all things are congealed moments in a longer social trajectory. All things are brief deposits of this or that property, photographs that conceal the reality of the motion from which their objecthood is a momentary respite.On the Ikeaization of France
“Faites le plein d’idées!” the French arm of the Swedish home superstore Ikea’s enormous product range enthusiastically encourages the consumer. As one proceeds through the store, one is confronted by a series of stagelike tableaux suggesting different…