These poems are part of a series in which I use methods of erasure to interrogate the statements and apologies…
Orlan
French Performance artist, Orlan rewrites herself by physically reconstructing her face multiple times in her 1990 series “Reincarnation of Saint…
Dada
The Dada movement was founded on stuttering. It is even named in babble, an un-name that denies the authority of…
The Stutter of the Time
Paul Celan’s poem “Tübingen, January,” a three-stanza poem, breaks down in the third stanza as it stutters into Friedrich Hölderlin’s…
Tübingen, January – Paul Celan
Beneath a flow of eloquence blinded, the eyes. Their – “an enigma is the pure sprung forth” –, their memory…
The Scream in Antonin Artaud: Building a New Transmitter
The split within the modern subject is further complicated and explored in the case of Antonin Artaud who was in…
Thus there are butterflies in Kafka, too
Thus there are butterflies in Kafka, too …
Et in Arcadia Ego
Poussin painted two versions of the same scene and also with the same title Et in Arcadia Ego. The second…
Spirit Photography
When photography was first introduced, there was a popular practice and consumption of “Spirit Photography” which produces a ghostly image…
Stelarc
Australian performance artist, Stelarc, uses technology to extend his body and reconceive it as both operating with and through machines.…
Erin Mizrahi 