My grandfather discovered that he was going to die while sitting across a desk from his
doctor. Apparently the doctor reviewed the test results, looked up, and said,“You have lung …

My grandfather discovered that he was going to die while sitting across a desk from his
doctor. Apparently the doctor reviewed the test results, looked up, and said,“You have lung …

We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how
it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly …

The task of this project is to explore non-representational versions of portraiturewithin the
contemporary art world and present several examples in an exhibition at agallery in …

" If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen,
the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its …

'Most classicists do not know what Semiotics is'; Nancy Rubin's statement (1983: 5) remains
regrettably true. The ancient philologist's focus on the logos retards attention especially to …

An essay is presented on the 2007 video installation of Israeli artist Omer Fast entitled" The
Casting." It explains that a journey through the installation is an exercise in resignation, and …

My fiancé Tree looks at brain tissue all day, samples of mouse brain under a microscope.
The mice have been gassed, injected and pumped with cigarette smoke and nicotine since …