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Glorious Catastrophe : Jack Smith, performance and visual culture
Artist/Author: Dominic Johnson | Reference: P1902 | ISBN: 978-0-7190-8299-3 | Type: Publication

Detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989.

1960s AIDS Alan Read America Atlantis avant-garde Bachelard cultural criticism death experimental experimental theatre film gay history impromptu intervention Jack Halberstam Jack Smith Jacobs kitsch Lee Edelman lesbian Nan Goldin New York ostracism performance political queer theory Roszak sexuality street intervention Vidler visual art writing

Jack Smith’s Rehearsals for the Destruction of Atlantis: ‘Exotic’ Ritual and Apocalyptic Tone
Artist/Author: Dominic Johnson | Reference: A0311 | Type: Article

Engaging a series of critical models, this article examines the place of the ‘exotic’ in thinking about sexual and racial difference, as a means of thinking difficult or volatile modes of cultural practice. As such, it stages a confrontation between ‘exotic ritual’ and ‘apocalyptic tone’, to challenge conventions about scholarly practice and find new ways of examining uncomfortable spaces and modes of working.

AIDS Alan Read apocalypse Atlantis avant-garde Bachelard communal relations death experimental theatre gay intervention Jack Halberstam Jack Smith Jacobs kitsch laughter Lee Edelman lesbian Nan Goldin ostracism performance art political queer theory race ritual Roszak sexuality spatiality street intervention uncanny Vidler

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