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Occupying the museum: Denkmal 53 at Tate Modern
Get PDFOne of two major essays in the two volume catalogue of the recent work of the Belgian artist Jan de Cock. It makes a study of the large installations at Tate Modern, summer 2005 using the Freudian concept of object-cathexis in order to analyse the work’s libidinous and aggressive attachment to the museum as an institution and as a specific set of spaces. It compares de Cock’s strategies to those of Donald Judd and Marcel Broodthers.
This essay is significant for showing how the concept of cathexis can be widely applied across architecture and sculpture. It is original in the sense that it is the only existing analysis of de Cock’s work to use a psychoanalytic methodology. It is executed with rigour in that the essay stems from discussions between the author and the artist that were modelled on clinical psychoanalytic practice. There is also a high degree of originality through input from the author and the artist, particularly in the way in which the text is located throughout the book as an ‘unconscious text’, that appears in all the other texts on de Cock’s work, and then wraps around the cover of the book to name it, before returning to the status of subtext (thus the 127 pages).
The book is a unique and highly creative encounter between author and artists that initiates new forms of expression and dialogue to graphically and temporally capture the ‘pulsation of the unconscious’ (Lacan, Four Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis). This process opens up the text to visual and spatial displacements that act as homologues to the functioning of the conscious and unconscious ambitions of the artist.
Winner of the Plantin Moretus Prize in the category of ‘Best Art Book’, 2007
Begehbare skulpturale Situationen: Verfahren und Mechanismen der Assemblage bei Manfred Pernice, Cosima von Bonin und Jan de Cock
No full textSeit den 1990er Jahren konzipieren Kunstschaffende ihre Ausstellungen vermehrt als unabgeschlossene Gefüge. Über mehrere Jahre hinweg präsentieren sie diese in unterschiedlichen Konfigurationen. Dabei werden Ensembles und Einzelwerke frei kombiniert und rekombiniert und eine Gleichzeitigkeit von Einheit und Differenz, Bestimmtheit und Unbestimmtheit inszeniert. Exemplarisch zeigen das ausgewählte Ausstellungen von Manfred Pernice (*1963), Cosima von Bonin (*1962) und Jan De Cock (*1976). Zentral sind folgende Fragen: Welche Begrifflichkeit wird der Dynamisierung von Werk- und Ausstellungsstatus gerecht? Welche Verbindungen bestehen zwischen den einzelnen Ausstellungselementen und dem Ausstellungsensemble? Welche Rolle haben die Betrachtenden und welche Auswirkungen haben die instabilen Verbindungen auf deren Rezeptionsverhalten? Die Dissertation entwirft eine Schreibweise für die Analyse langfristiger Ausstellungsprojekte jenseits einer fixierten Setzung und bietet eine Basis, um Werk-, Ensemble- und Ausstellungskategorien auf einen Diskurs des Ephemeren hin zu überdenken. Auch thematisiert sie einen Betrachter, dessen Aufmerksamkeit abgelenkt und zerstreut wird und dessen ästhetisches Erlebnis zwischen Aktivierung und Zurückweisung oszilliert
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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