التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Visuality and Parrēsia: Ai Weiwei's countervisual re-enactment of Alan Kurdi's image. |
| المؤلفون: |
Mendes, Ana Cristina |
| المصدر: |
Visual Studies; 2023, Vol. 38 Issue 5, p766-777, 12p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
DEMOCRACY, PARRHESIA (The Greek word), POLEMICS |
| People: |
AI Weiwei, 1957-, KURDI, Alan |
| مستخلص: |
As an intervention in the study of visuality and countervisuality (Mirzoeff 2011), underscoring its connection to democracy and parrēsia (Foucault 2010), this article examines Ai Weiwei's re-enactment of Alan Kurdi's image in 2016. The instant and expandable polemics that characterized the reception of the re-enactment built on the unethicalness – even blatant inappropriateness – of a celebrity's appropriation of (the graphic representation of) a dead child's body. Building on the role of the Chinese celebrity artist-activist as a public intellectual, this article advances a way to rethink the re-enactment beyond the idea of shock and away from controversy, analyzing it as an indictment of two interrelated 'crises': the European refugee 'crisis' and the inadequate response to the influx of refugees in 2015, and the 'crisis' of democracy more broadly, considering that respect for human rights is integral to democratic governance. To make a case for the re-enactment as a form of countervisuality, I deploy Barthes's theorization on the punctum and studium of photographs. The contention is that Ai's re-enactment of Nilüfer Demir's photo – and the controversy surrounding it – actualizes the punctum and studium of the precursor image to function as a denunciation of the 'crises' of our present moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
|
Copyright of Visual Studies is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
PDF full text from Publisher 
Full Text Finder