cultural anthropologist || writer || professor
Very excited that this edited volume on space and gender put together by the fabulous Aimee Meredith Cox is finally out in the world! Extremely grateful to have been invited to contribute to the edited volume with many scholars I deeply respect and admire. I am also grateful to the inspiration and imagery lent to …
An ark not to leave, but to stay. An ark to stay, that is the planet, our Earth (isn't it?) A Gaia global circus. I'm not a theater professional, nor particularly well qualified to write reviews of pieces from the perspective of an expert in that field. I came to this play as a reader …
Van Silcen Avenue, Barbara Ellmann (MTA 2009) In his posthumously published Arcades Project,1 Walter Benjamin describes the emergent rivalry in the 19th century between the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts: between art and technology. Technological innovation and reproduction transformed the architectural and sensual experience of time and the social, economic and material forms …
As I am preparing notes for my class' discussion of race, I am once again overwhelmed by the richness of the neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn as local sites for exploring how race and racism are inflected into the built environments and how much our home turfs - be they lush and …
Continue reading "Turf Wars: Race and Hipster Gentrification"
Sculpting Memory by Monica Patrice Barra ~ In his book Present Pasts Andreas Huyssen writes about a sculpture work by Colombian artist Dolores Salcedo, The Orphan’s Tunic (1997) as an example of a recent trend in cultural and artistic work he calls “memory sculptures.” Such works create a dimension of embodiment between the viewer, museum …
Monica Patrice Barra 