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Item Embargo From Fishy Past to Fishy Future: Thinking through the Aquarium(2024-05) Zhang, QiyunThis project explores various ways of how the aquarium mediates the relationship between human beings and nature. The methods include tracing the historical trajectory of the aquarium since its invention as a naturalist’s instrument in the 19th century, and reflecting on the author’s own embodied experience at contemporary public aquariums. In particular, the author asks: Can the aquarium become a heterogeneous space for both the human and non-human? Can we have differentiation without domination? The author concludes that the aquarium is simultaneously the site of domination and the site of resistance. On the one hand, the development of the aquarium is inseparable from the progress of Enlightenment, capitalism, and scientific positivism. On the other hand, when Enlightenment seeks to demystify, the aquarium presents wonder; when capitalism enforces reification, the aquarium counters with vitalism; when science tries to “solve it all”, the aquarium opens up to unknowability. Therefore, thinking through the aquarium may contribute to an ethics of co-becoming, with other humans, animals, and machines.Item Open Access Item Open Access On the site of her own exclusion: strategizing queer feminist art history(2016) Bowen, DoreWhile feminist art history and queer theory both have a strong presence in academic discourse, there is no clear existing queer feminist art history. This book examines how and why this is the case.Item Open Access Paper Airplanes: An Interview with Akram Zaatari—Artist, Archivist and Curator(2020-06-23) Bowen, Dore"The spectrum of contemporary nonfiction films from the MENA region is huge, as can be seen from a cursory glance at the catalogs of many international and local festivals.Item Open Access The Art of the Anthropological Diorama: Franz Boas, Arthur C. Parker, and Constructing Authenticity, by Noémie Étienne(Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, 2022-10-11) Bowen, DoreReview of The Art of the Anthropological Diorama: Franz Boas, Arthur C. Parker, and Constructing Authenticity, by Noémie ÉtienneItem Open Access The Diorama Effect: Gas, Politics, and Opera in the 1825 Paris Diorama(Intermedialites / Intermediality, 2014) Bowen, DoreThe diorama on the rue Sanson in Paris (1822–39) created a blended image by rotating the auditorium between two tableaux, each painted back and front and illuminated with colored light to create a sense of animation. What I call the “diorama effect” is the way the diorama used projection and reflection—both literally and figuratively—to create the illusion of places and characters known to the audience while simultaneously dissolving these references, seemingly into thin air. The 1825 diorama, the example in this essay, featured a tableau by Charles-Marie Bouton depicting a view of Paris and its new gas meter, and a second tableau by Louis Daguerre presenting a colonnade that disappears. To understand the way that these tableaux participated in then-contemporary debates on gaslight each is read in relation to narratives from the time—notably, the program notes for the diorama, the popular fairy tale of Aladdin and the magic lamp, and public debates in which the gas lamp figures as a political symbol of insurrection or, conversely, as a romantic symbol of exoticism.Item Open Access Une belle banalité : entretien avec Dan Graham(Culture et Musees, 2018-12-31) Graham, Dan; Bowen, Dore