C. Harker
A Close and Unbreachable distance: Witnessing Everything and Nothing
Harker, C.
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Abstract
This paper began life as my attempt to bear witness to untitled part 1: everything and nothing, a videotape made by Vancouver based artist Jayce Salloum. However, in doing (or attempting to do) this, I found myself bearing witness to a great deal more. Because in approaching Salloum’s tape, I couldn’t help but encounter Soha Bechara, the ostensible ‘subject’ of the piece. And meeting Soha also meant coming across Lebanon, albeit an always-already partial version. Working my way through these entanglements, I dwell on intimacy as a form of relating, and the proliferation of subjectivities that everything and nothing enacts. And in recounting the intricate spatial formation that developed as a result of this process, I also want to argue that enactments of witnessing are both inherently geographical and affectively charged.
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Harker, C. (2007). A Close and Unbreachable distance: Witnessing Everything and Nothing. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 6(1), 51-72
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2007 |
Deposit Date | Nov 6, 2009 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 13, 2009 |
Journal | ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies |
Print ISSN | 1492-9732 |
Publisher | University of British Columbia, Okanagan |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 51-72 |
Publisher URL | http://www.acme-journal.org/Volume6-1.htm |
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