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Issue 6
Winter 2005
Anatomy & Poetics

Issue 6

Anatomy & Poetics

Anatomy and Poetics

Ann McCulloch
Deakin University
It is instructive to review the ways in which pain has been represented and discoursed across time. In this century, pain, like its most feared companion death, is looked upon with derision and all attempts are made to find ways in which we might avoid its experience.

Transmitting Pain into Art in Contemporary Israeli Fiction

Dvir Abramovich
University of Melbourne
Over thirty years ago, critic Alfred Kazin, writing about the Holocaust, noted that ‘year by year these terrible events press themselves more tightly on our mind’ (1970).

Magical Feminism: The Paradoxical Pain in Fefu and her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes and The Eisteddfod by Lally Katz

Ricci-Jane Adams
University of Melbourne
Pain, in the sense that it will be discussed here, is the 'not physical…not sorrow' pain of women whose subjectivity has been colonised by a dominant system of representation, the hegemonic force of patriarchy.

Mike Parr and the discursive rupture: The condemned and punished body as a political strategy in Close the Concentration Camps

Sarah Austin
University of Melbourne
This paper looks at the historical spectacle of the condemned and punished body and argues that the performance work of Australian artist Mike Parr, entitled Close the Concentration Camps, employs a strategic relationship with this historical image of injured corporeality.

Dreaming Dreaming: Some notes round-a-bout the short film Traum A Dream

Dirk de Bryun
Deakin University
These notes explore some of the background, the influences and pre-occupations at play in the construction of my short film Traum A Dream (Australia 6 minutes 2003) that was shown at the 2004 Double Dialogues Conference.

“At the Still Point”: Performing Silence, Interpreting Silence

Elissa Goodrich
University of Melbourne
This paper is an attempt to open up discussion about the role of silence in music performance and the ability of silence to transform. As case studies I will use three short original musical works that deal with ‘pain’ in differing ways.

Uncanny Encounters: On Writing, Anxiety and jouissance

Dominique Hecq
University of Melbourne
In this paper, I’d like to investigate the relationship between writing as symptom, anxiety and jouissance*, or more particularly, between writing as sinthome* (a particular form of the symptom as suppliance), anxiety, and two forms of jouissances.

Lessing’s Laokoon and the Rhetoric of Pain

Tim Mehigan
University of Otago
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Laokoon was published in 1766. We recall it today as one of the first works of criticism in the modern style.

The Literary Voice of Pain and Suffering

Myoung Jae Yi
Can Literature as a discipline help alleviate the pain and suffering caused by depression? The hope that this may occur arises from its allegiance to both the written and spoken word.

Breath & Elegy: Moments of Grief and Art

Gaylene Perry & Annette Iggulden
Deakin University
Dear Annette. I’m approaching you about a collaborative visual arts and creative writing project that I wish to initiate.

Grotesque images and sardonic humour: Pain and affect in German drama

Denise Varney
University of Melbourne
This paper turns from language to images that evoke a painful history. In particular, it considers theatrical images whose effect is to call up or hail the real or metaphoric pain that circulates around historical events.

Frida Kahlo and the Imagery of Tragedy

Ken Wach
The University of Melbourne
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City on Saturday 6th July 1907 and died in the house in the background of this photograph, aged 47, just one week after her birthday, on Tuesday 13th July 1954.

HandInkThread: Using Pain to Construct Selfhood in Art

Uli Krahn
Sydney University
The problem of pain, together with that of colour perception, recurs in discussions about knowledge and solipsism; that is, the question whether my sensory perceptions have any meaningful relationship to the sensory perceptions of other people.

The experience of the body in pain (anatomy) and the aesthetic representation of pain (poetics) is the theme explored in this issue of Double Dialogues.

The essays are testament to the diverse ways in which pain and suffering form a large part of the life lived, the art that seeks to express that life and the extent to which men and women avoid and embrace the meaning it might hold.

The essays examine art as a kind of ‘healing’ agent, in that it confronts what is unbearable and turns it into art, takes on many forms and gives rise to new questions.

 

Double Dialogues | Refereed Arts Journal | ISSN 1447-9591  
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