When the human gaze falls on a body, it constructs and deconstructs it. The setting for this is our daily life in all its different shapes and forms. The human body functions here as a semiotic system, an archive, a fiction, a projection screen, or an alphabet. The gaze that encounters it may manifest as an antagonist—be it incisive or flawed—yet it can itself disappear from view. The texts and images brought together in this volume seek to remove the body from the firing line and away from these judging and derogatory glances. They act as mirrors redirecting looks, points of view, and ideas to enable us to understand implicit and explicit processes of reading.
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Counter_Readings of the Body
Leipzig January, 2021
ISBN: 9783959054591
Width: 15 cm
Length: 23 cm
Language(s): English
Editor
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Daniel Neugebauer
Designer
Malin Gewinner, Hannes Drißner, Markus Dreßen
Design Concept
Olaf Nicolai, Malin Gewinner, Hannes Drißner
Text
Olympia Bukkakis, María do Mar Castro Varela, Rain Demetri, Sabine Mohamed, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Olave Nduwanje, Jules Sturm, Julius Thissen
Counter_Readings of the Body
DNA #3
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Daniel Neugebauer
80 pp.
with black-white and colour illustrations
perfect bound softcover
Leipzig January, 2021
ISBN: 9783959054591
Width: 15 cm
Length: 23 cm
Language(s): English
Editor
HKW - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Daniel Neugebauer
Designer
Malin Gewinner, Hannes Drißner, Markus Dreßen
Design Concept
Olaf Nicolai, Malin Gewinner, Hannes Drißner
Text
Olympia Bukkakis, María do Mar Castro Varela, Rain Demetri, Sabine Mohamed, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Olave Nduwanje, Jules Sturm, Julius Thissen
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