Robb Hernández
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781479845309
- eISBN:
- 9781479822720
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479845309.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Archiving an Epidemic is the first book to examine the devastating effect of the AIDS crisis on a generation of Chicanx artists who influenced transgressive genders and sexualities operating in the ...
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Archiving an Epidemic is the first book to examine the devastating effect of the AIDS crisis on a generation of Chicanx artists who influenced transgressive genders and sexualities operating in the Chicana and Chicano art movement in Southern California. From mariconógraphy to renegade street graffiti, from the Barrio Baroque to Frozen Art, these visual provocateurs introduced a radical queer languageemboldened by opportunities in LA’s art and retail culturein the 1980s. AIDS not only ravaged their lives, but also devastated their archives. A queer archival methodology is demanded to ascertain how AIDS and its losses and traumas have rearticulated recordkeeping practices beyond systemic forms of preservation. The resulting “archival bodies/archival spaces” of queer Chicanx avant-gardists Mundo Meza (1955–1985), Teddy Sandoval (1949–1995), and Joey Terrill (1955–present) refutes dismissive arguments that these provocateurs have had little consequence for the definition of the aesthetics of Chicano art and performance. With appearances by Laura Aguilar, Cyclona, Simon Doonan, David Hockney, Christopher Isherwood, Robert Mapplethorpe, and even Eddie Murphy, this book stands in defense of the alternative archivesthat emerged from this plague. Thinking outside traditional terms of institutional mediation, Archiving an Epidemic speculates not what Chicana/o art is but what it could have been.Less
Archiving an Epidemic is the first book to examine the devastating effect of the AIDS crisis on a generation of Chicanx artists who influenced transgressive genders and sexualities operating in the Chicana and Chicano art movement in Southern California. From mariconógraphy to renegade street graffiti, from the Barrio Baroque to Frozen Art, these visual provocateurs introduced a radical queer languageemboldened by opportunities in LA’s art and retail culturein the 1980s. AIDS not only ravaged their lives, but also devastated their archives. A queer archival methodology is demanded to ascertain how AIDS and its losses and traumas have rearticulated recordkeeping practices beyond systemic forms of preservation. The resulting “archival bodies/archival spaces” of queer Chicanx avant-gardists Mundo Meza (1955–1985), Teddy Sandoval (1949–1995), and Joey Terrill (1955–present) refutes dismissive arguments that these provocateurs have had little consequence for the definition of the aesthetics of Chicano art and performance. With appearances by Laura Aguilar, Cyclona, Simon Doonan, David Hockney, Christopher Isherwood, Robert Mapplethorpe, and even Eddie Murphy, this book stands in defense of the alternative archivesthat emerged from this plague. Thinking outside traditional terms of institutional mediation, Archiving an Epidemic speculates not what Chicana/o art is but what it could have been.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846317576
- eISBN:
- 9781846317248
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317248.008
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter examines some recent developments in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cinematic cartography. It discusses the use of geospatial and GIS mapping technologies as tools ...
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This chapter examines some recent developments in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cinematic cartography. It discusses the use of geospatial and GIS mapping technologies as tools for mining the layered topographies of film, memory and urban space, and suggests that the conception of the city-in-film in cinematic cartography can be considered as a relational assemblage of archival image-spaces rather than as a virtual chronology of individual filmic ‘narrative moments’. The chapter also contends that Liverpool's cinematic geographies articulate many of the contradictions and critical questions which are posed by the cinematization of postmodern urban space.Less
This chapter examines some recent developments in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cinematic cartography. It discusses the use of geospatial and GIS mapping technologies as tools for mining the layered topographies of film, memory and urban space, and suggests that the conception of the city-in-film in cinematic cartography can be considered as a relational assemblage of archival image-spaces rather than as a virtual chronology of individual filmic ‘narrative moments’. The chapter also contends that Liverpool's cinematic geographies articulate many of the contradictions and critical questions which are posed by the cinematization of postmodern urban space.
J. J. Long
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748633876
- eISBN:
- 9780748651757
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633876.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter focuses on the family archive, particularly the family album. It notes that Foucault-inspired writings emphasise the production of bourgeois subjectivity, as well as the reproduction of ...
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This chapter focuses on the family archive, particularly the family album. It notes that Foucault-inspired writings emphasise the production of bourgeois subjectivity, as well as the reproduction of the ideology of the nuclear and extended family. The chapter also studies The Emigrants, which begin a rehabilitation of the family album and domestic photography, and shows that the structure of The Emigrants forms the text itself as an archival space of preservation and stability, in the midst of subjective trauma and historical flux.Less
This chapter focuses on the family archive, particularly the family album. It notes that Foucault-inspired writings emphasise the production of bourgeois subjectivity, as well as the reproduction of the ideology of the nuclear and extended family. The chapter also studies The Emigrants, which begin a rehabilitation of the family album and domestic photography, and shows that the structure of The Emigrants forms the text itself as an archival space of preservation and stability, in the midst of subjective trauma and historical flux.
