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In Unconscious as a Machine: Part I - Structuralist, we have determined that the structuralist sees a fixed, unified, singular image - the originating event organizing one’s psychosexual development is at the root of every unconscious desire and though–and that the...
What does it mean to fix someone? Is the human mind something fixable—like a machine? For something to be fixed, it needs to have set boundaries. The unconscious can in fact be thought of as a machine. The definition of a machine as ‘an assemblage of parts designed...
Born Watraud Lehner in 1940, the Austrian performance artist abandoned her predetermined identity by creating her own, on her terms. Her self-determined name served as a manifesto and a logo, written only in capital letters to announce her presence: VALIE EXPORT....
The mosaic absurdity that is My Onliness—the child of One-Eighth Theater, IRT Theater, and New Ohio Theater—is an avant-garde experience to say the least. The spirit of the Polish playwright, painter, and philosopher Stanislaw Witkacy, a precursor to the Theater of...
To recite the eloquent reflection of Christopher Innes, avant-garde describes “What is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward”. The word leading is suiting as the word’s origin is rooted...