CATALOGUE 2004

Mieke BAL: Mille et un jours Documentaire expérimental | beta sp | couleur | 0:45:48 | Pays-bas / France | 2003 (c) photo: Mieke Bal in 2003 she made a film on migrancy in France, with a collective of five video artists called Cinema Suitcase. This film, Mille et un jours, has been shown in a number of European universities, most recently at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam and the Lichthaus Kino in Weimar. A cultural critic and theorist, is Professor of Theory of Literature and a Founding Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam, as well as A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. Her most recent publications are Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide (University of Toronto Press, 2002) and Mieke Bal Kulturanalyse (Suhrkamp, 2002). Among her many other books are: Louise Bourgeois’ Spider: The Architecture of Artwriting (University of Chicago Press, 2001); Looking In: The Art of Viewing (G&B Arts International, 2001); Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History (University of Chicago Press, 1999 [2001]); Narratology: An Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (2nd, thoroughly revised and expanded edition, University of Toronto Press, 1997); The Mottled Screen: Reading Proust Visually (Stanford University Press, 1997); Double Exposures: The Subject of Cultural Analysis (Routledge, 1996); and Reading ‘Rembrandt’: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition (Cambridge University Press, 1991 [1994]). She also edited a programmatic volume The Practice of Cultural Analysis: Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation (Stanford University Press, 1999). Her areas of interest include literary theory, semiotics, visual art, cultural studies, transcultural theory, feminist theory, French, the Hebrew Bible, the seventeenth century and contemporary culture. Her current research centres around four themes: “narratology between the disciplines”, which may lead to a replacement of her revised and expanded Narratology (1997) and focus on fully integrating the interdisciplinary perspective she has developed over the past decade; “travelling concepts”, now a book, as a result of her intense involvement with the ASCA Theory Seminar and her conviction that reflection on and deployment of concepts can make an indispensable contribution to interdisciplinary cultural analysis; “in time: between performance and performativity”: a project based on the cluster of aspects of the two terms, to be developed into a book with a theoretical grounding and involving literary texts as well as contemporary art; “preposterous history”, to further exploit the idea broached in her book Quoting Caravaggio. She is interested in linking theory and practice in the domain of art presentation. In this context, she recently made a series of nine 61/2-minute video clips, Art Clips, on audience interaction with single art works. With Shahram Entekhabi she made Eye Contact in 2003, a 10 minutes film on an exhibition of works by Louise Bourgeois. Also in ___ Publications / Veröffentlichungen / Publications - Traveling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide (University of Toronto Press, 2002) - Louise Bourgeois’ Spider: The Architecture of Art-Writing (University of Chicago Press, 2001) - Looking In: The Art of Viewing (G&B Arts International, 2001) - Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History (University of Chicago Press, 1999) - Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Literature (University of Toronto Press, 1997).