Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment

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Titre
FR Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment
Créateur
FR J.R. Carpenter
Date de création
FR Première publication en version papier dans la revue ARS MEDICA, A Journal of Medicine, Health and the Humanities en automne 2005.
Première publication sur le Web en 1999.
Présenté à la Galerie Oboro, Montréal, 1997-1999.
Présenté lors de l'exposition ENGAGING THE VIRTUAL, de Doug Porter, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, du 2000-03-09 au 2000-04-23.
Langue
FR Anglais
Est une partie de
Résumé
FR L'œuvre est un essai poétique divisé en 3 parties, puis, ces parties sont divisées en sous-parties. Des pages titres annoncent la section du texte que le lecteur s'apprête à lire.
Description
FR Description de l'autrice : « Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment, an illustrated essay, appears in the Fall 2005 issue of ARS MEDICA, A Journal of Medicine, Health and the Humanities, a new quarterly literary journal that explores the interface between the arts and medicine, and examines what makes medicine an art.

"Writing and healing have always been intrinsically linked. ARS MEDICA seeks to provide the reader with vivid examples. Content includes narratives from patients and health care workers, medical history, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, illustrations and photography." http://ars-medica.ca/
I began writing Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment as a response to the discourse of disembodiment that was prevalent in early days of the Internet. I never believed that the physical gendered body would be subsumed in an idealized information age. Even in our attempts to externalize and expand upon the processes of the brain through the computational and storage capacities of the computer, the precariousness of the biological body persists. It seems to me that somewhere along the way cultural theory veered away from body politics. In Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment I have tried to examine, from the inside, not just 'the' body, but also 'my' body in particular. I have focused on the storage and retention of bodily memory in order to explore the relationship and/or disconnect between body and mind that has preoccupied philosophers for generations. In Ethics, Part II: Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind, Spinoza writes: "The human mind is capable of perceiving a great number of things, and … is cable of receiving a great number of impressions… If the human body is affected in a manner which involves the nature of any external body, the human mind will regard the said external body as actually existing… Memory is simply a certain association of ideas involving the nature of things outside the human body, which association arises in the mind according to the order and association of the modifications of the human body… The human mind has no knowledge of the body, and does not know it to exist, save through the ideas of the modifications whereby the body is affected."

Thank you to: Alison and Ian at Ars Media, for their attention to detail; Elise Moser, for telling me about the journal; OBORO, for supporting the production of the online version; Dave Liss, for including an installation version of the "Nails and Hair" portion in "L'Entrespace II" at the Saidye Bronfman Center; and to Barbara Layne, who instigated the project way back when I was …

"suddenly far from my brain and naked without it"
Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment, J. R. Carpenter »

Mention de genre autodéclarée : « an illustrated essay »
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Notre description : L'œuvre
est un essai poétique divisé en 3 parties, puis, ces parties sont divisées en sous-parties. Des pages titres annoncent la section du texte que le lecteur s'apprête à lire.

Chaque strophe / parragraphe est écrit.e sur une page web différente. Le texte est présenté en écriture noire sur fond blanc et est continuellement accompagné d'une ou plusieurs image.s représentant une partie du corps humain ou un instrument médical. Les images sont des illustrations en noir et blanc. Pour avancer dans la lecture, le lecteur doit cliquer sur l'image qui le mène à une nouvelle page web avec une nouvelle strophe ou un nouveau vers. Le lecteur continue sa lecture jusqu'à ce qu'il ne puisse plus cliquer d'image.
Nature
Genre
Thèmes
FR Corps humain
Médecine
Mémoire
Cerveau
Format
Principe d'organisation
Technique
Extraits de l'œuvre
FR « My brain will secur itself, my hands will remember themselves before it is too late; they will steady themselves in their activity, my posture will come to its senses. »
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Personne ayant créé la fiche
FR Aude Meunier-Rochon
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