Another excerpt from the daily course readings:
"I am only interested in what’s not mine. The law of men. The law of the cannibal."
I will become a bit more streamlined here, as we are coming very close to the time of departure and I feel that much remains to be done to prepare.
Please know that we are being extremely flexible in our notions of Cannibal. Primarily, this class will be focusing on the devouring nature of colonialism and/or the aggressor and the objects it takes down with it. It will rise out of this position, to also figure in on the devoured's appetite reconstructed and active.
READING
The Manifesto Antropofago (1928)
A Politics of Tears: The Museum of Useless Efforts, Marfa, TX
Mary Walling Blackburn
WATCHING
Cannibal Girls Trailer (1973)
The Prelude The Gardenpath by Tracey Rose (2003)
LOOKING:
Bas Jan Ader THE ARTIST AS CONSUMER OF EXTREME COMFORT, 1968/2003
LISTENING: Please listen to the animal grunts on the audio track of Michelle Larcher de Brito playing tennis
Photograph by Julia Sherman
Painting on display at the US Border Patrol Museum in El Paso, Texas
