Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

Some new links HERE under "Cyborg/Automata Resources"

and Wk 7 lecture and presentation are posted, as is the handout.

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Important fall due dates at-a-glance:
>Rough Draft Due WEEK 8, Weds Nov 14 [IN CLINIC]
>Quick Rough Draft Conferences WEEK 8, Fri Nov 16 [IN REVUE]
>Fine Draft Due WEEK 9, Tue Nov 27 or Wed Nov 28 @ your conference
>Final Draft Due WEEK 10, Weds Dec 5 [for final revisions, if requested by faculty]

"Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman" 1978-79 By Dara Birnbaum

WHAT + WHERE + WHEN: Week 7, Friday November 9, we will not have our usual Revue. However, we still will use our regular class time and our approach will be, in its own way, hugger-mugger.

Instead of meeting at 2:00, meet up at The Capitol Theater that afternoon at 3:00 for the Olympia Film Festival's 3:30 program, "Feminist Video Art of the 1970s."

"Join Colleen Dixon and Bridget Irish as they take you on a journey through an abbreviated survey of 70s feminist film and video art. Five seminal short works will be introduced and discussed in their historical and social context – audience participation is encouraged."

HOW MUCH: If you are an OFS (Olympia Film Society Member) your ticket will be $6, and if you aren't your ticket will be $8.

HOW: We will be purchasing a block of tickets in advance and need to have an exact count of who is/isn't an OFS member. EMAIL ELIZABETH ASAP IF YOU ARE AN OFS MEMBER.

Feminist Video Art of the 70s
Cine-X
Capitol Theater, Friday Nov. 9 at 3:30 PM
1970 / USA / 90 minutes / Digital Video

http://olympiafilmfestival.org/movieDetail.asp?id=44

The 70s were a time of social and technological revolution and women were its leaders. Advanced media technologies emerged in the 70s allowing many artists access to recording equipment in video and film for the first time. The opportunities this new-found access provided coincided with a strong desire amongst many women artists to incorporate the body into various modes of performance. The burgeoning time-based medium of video offered an ideal format for these endeavors, which set the foundation for the crucial role women have played in the development and progression of film and video over the past thirty-five years.

Join Colleen Dixon and Bridget Irish as they take you on a journey through an abbreviated survey of 70s feminist film and video art. Five seminal short works will be introduced and discussed in their historical and social context – audience participation is encouraged.

Vertical Roll
1972 / 20 min / b&w / sound
Director: Joan Jonas

Female Sensibility
1973 / 14 min / color / sound
Director: Lynda Benglis

Through the Large Glass
1976 / 10 min / color / silent / 16 mm film
Director: Hannah Wilke

The East Is Red, The West Is Bending
1977 / 20 min / color / sound
Director: Martha Rosler

Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
1978-79 / 6 min / color / sound
Director: Dara Birnbaum

Distributor web site: http://www.eai.org

Friday morning, 11/9 (week 7), we will be screening Metropolis.

We won't be meeting in our usual Friday morning space, though.

WE WILL MEET IN SEM 2 E1105 at 10 am.

Friday, 11/16 (week 8) UPDATE

For the 3rd hour of Beauty Parlour (after Group 6 presentations) 12-1pm, the program will go to the Com bldg. RECITAL HALL for "Media Ventriloquism," a lecture by Douglas Kahn, Evergreen alum ('73) and Professor in the Technocultural Studies program at the University of California Davis.           

Media Ventriloquism: What happens when the puppet loses the tight-jawed twang and finds its voice in a well-known political figure, when the puppet loses the forearm and grows a real spine, saying what it really meant to say? Rare footage of Pauline Pantsdown: the anti-Citizen Kane of Australian political drag.

Ventriloquism (and political ventriloquism, at that):  another way for us to approach the notion of the cyborg. 

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Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps-OPEN DRESS REHEARSAL

•••Newly added: an opportunity to see Scott and fabulous director Steve Bailey in action as they fine-tune the performance the night before the Friday show. Q+A afterwards.

8pm COM Experimental Theater • you do need to get a ticket beforehand, though students are free.

[Steve Bailey is the education director and a founder of Jump-Start Performance Co. in San Antonio, Texas. He was the founder and director of 24th Street Experiment Theater Company, research coordinator for Theater Communications Group, and artist-in-residence with Teatro del Sol in Lima, Peru. Over the past thirty years, Steve Bailey has created and/or directed over fifty original productions that have been presented in the U.S. and Latin America. He is also an arts educator who has worked with numerous youth and adult groups in a variety of community settings.]

• and read a great interview with Steve about his work here.

The Good Person of Szechwan, Bertolt Brecht

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, Anne Fausto-Sterling** [we will be reading chapters 1, 2 and 9 only.]

The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Vol. 1), Michel Foucault

The Balcony, Jean Genet

The Roaring Girl, Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker

Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England, Stephen Orgel [Preface, Ch. 1, 2, 3, 5]