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Studio Research

Becka’s studio process includes research focused in the development of a creative and theoretical practice that embraces the complexity of reality within the everyday.

CURRENT IN PROGRESS STUDIO INVESTIGATIONS:

Islander Echoes

Proximity and Distance of Conflict

Object/Abject

The Sovereign / Sovereignty

Performance

Agrarian Alienation

Intimacy

In Our Place

Video Research

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CURRENTLY READING

Theological-Political Fragment – Walter Benjamin

Besides Oneself: On the Limits of Sexuality – Judith Butler, from Undoing Gender

One is not Born a Woman – Monique Wittig

The Acadians: A People’s Story of Exile and Triumph – Dean W. Jobb

Arte of English Poesie – George Puttenham (1589).

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CURRENTLY WATCHING/LISTENING

The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts – MOMA

Judith Butler : “A Politics of the Street” – Wall Exchange spring 2012

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PAST READING

Derrida and Foucault on Sovereignty – Friedrich Balke (The German Law Journal)

M. FOUCAULT’S VIEW ON POWER RELATIONS – Sergiu Bălan, Ph.D

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

The Next Documentia Should Be Curated By An Artist – Curated by Jens Hoffmann

“A Careful Cruelty, A Patient Hate”: Degas’ Bathers in Pastel and Sculpture – Randi L. Fishman

Precarity and “affective resistance” –Rob Horning

Humanism Of the Other– Emmanuel Levinas

Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism –Alison Piepmeier

(B)orderlands’ Rhetorics and Representations: The Transformative Potential of FeministThird-Space Scholarship and Zines – Adela C. Licona

Abjection, Melancholia and Love: The work of Julia Kristeva – Edited by John Fletcher and Andrew Benjamin

Recipe or Performing Art?: challenging conventions for writing action research thesis – Kath Fisher and Renata Phelps

Phenomenology of Perception – Maurice. Merleau-Ponty

Undoing Gender – JUDITH BUTLER

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of Identity– JUDITH BUTLER

Metaphors We live By – George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

Thinking sex: Notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality – Gayle Rubin, 1984

The Essential Rumi – Translated by Coleman Barks

Susan Sontag Reader – Selected Writings by Susan Sontag

LAWS AS TACTICS – Dean Spade

About purportedly Gendered Body Parts – Dean Spade

Claiming the Real: Documentary: Grierson and Beyond – Brian Winston

Abstraction and Empathy – Wilhelm Worringer

The Synthesis of Empathy, Abstraction and Nature in theWork of Kandinsky, Steiner and Mendelsohn – Fiona Gray

Blackberries and Focused Vision – Refusing the Long View – Nemerov, Alexander.

Crypto-Schmittianism– Simon Critchley

Oresteia –Aeschylus

Death and Sensuality – Georges Bataille

Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory – Holger and Andreas Kramer, eds., In Practice: Adorno, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Bern: Lang, 2000, pp. 145-159

The Psychological Structure of Fascism – Georges Bataille (edited and with an introduction by Allan Stoekl) in Visions of Excess, Selected Writings, 1927 -1939 pp. 137 -160

Powers of Horror – Julia Kristeva (translated by Leon Roudiez)

Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century – Walter Benjamin in Walter Benjamin: The Arcades Project pp. 77 – 88

On the Concept of History – Walter Benjamin. 1940

À la recherche du temps perdu – Marcel Proust (translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff ) 1922 to 1931

Fleurs de Mal – Charles Baudelaire. 1868

What is Surrealism? – Andre Breton, 1934

Louise Bourgeois’s Femmes Maisons: Confronting Lacan – Julie Nicoletta, in Woman’s Art Journal. 1992-1993

Schooling for Inequality – Dorothy Smith in Signs volume 25 no. 4, Summer 2000, pp.1147 -1151

“Death by Landscape” Race, Nature and Gender in Canadian Nationalist Mythology– Eva Mackey in Canadian Woman Studies volume 20 no. 2, pp.125 – 130

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PREVIOUSLY WATCHED

Michel Foucault – The Culture of the Self, First Lecture