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Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self
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Overview
ORLAN is most famous for her series of cosmetic-surgery performances in the 1990s in which she reconfigured her face and body as a critique of the standards of beauty imposed on women. In 2008, in a seemingly radical departure, ORLAN chose to disappear from her work entirely, effacing her famously protean features from her creations. In fact, she had chosen an even more dramatic way to dismantle her identity and perform it anew. With her Harlequin Coat project ORLAN borrows the commedia dell’arte trickster hero, the harlequin, as her alter ego, using his patchwork motif as a metaphor for the fragmented, multicolored, multilayered performance of the human signature. It is her most collaborative work to date, involving, at different stages, artists from the worlds of fashion, design, film, and technology. In reaching back to this Italian Renaissance character ORLAN simultaneously reaches forward into the most pressing of contemporary concerns: How can we be sure of who and what we are?
Fabulous Harlequin showcases photographs of ORLAN’s projects along with critical essays on ORLAN’s work.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780803234758 |
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Publisher: | Nebraska |
Publication date: | 10/01/2010 |
Series: | Life in Performance |
Pages: | 176 |
Product dimensions: | 8.90(w) x 11.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Jorge Daniel Veneciano is the director of the Sheldon Museum of Art. He is the author of Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography; Neo-Constructivism: Art, Architecture, and Activism; and Play’s the Thing: Reading the Art of Jun Kaneko.
Rhonda K. Garelick is a professor in the Department of English and at the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism and Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle.
Contributors include: Homi K. Bhabha, Rhonda K. Garelick, Michel Serres, Isabel Tejeda, Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Paul Virilio, and Lan Vu.
Table of Contents
TOC
ORLAN in America: Preface and Acknowledgments 000
[1] Libre Parole 000
ORLAN
[2] On Secularism: Preface to The Troubadour of Knowledge 000
Michel Serres
[3] Fashioning Hybridity 000
Rhonda Garelick
[4] ORLAN and the Critique of Multiculturalism 000
Jorge Daniel Veneciano
[5] ORLAN and the Terms of Work 000
Homi K. Bhabha and Jorge Daniel Veneciano
[6] Transgression/Transfiguration: A Conversation 000
ORLAN and Paul Virilio
[7] ORLAN, Subject Omitted: Attire as Epidermis, Epidermis as Attire 000
Isabel Tejeda
[8] ORLAN, Forerunner of Tendencies 000
Lan Vu
[9] In the Name of ORLAN: Artist as Text 000
Jorge Daniel Veneciano
[10] Four Questions to ORLAN 000
[11] Four Questions to davidelfin 000
[12] Murcia Installation (plates) 000
[13] ORLAN Biography 000
[14] ORLAN Chronology 000
[15] ORLAN Bibliography 000
[16] davidelfin Chronology 000
[17] Contributors 000