Vol 6 Interruptions: Letters to Jimmie Durham

Edited by Stephen Muecke

This issue is devoted to the artist, essayist and activist Jimmie Durham.

Articles: Valerie Tring, Darren Jorgensen, Nikos Papastergiadis, Hamish Morgan, Misha Myers, Kim Satchell, Michael Taussig, and Stephen Muecke.

Interviews: Jimmie Durham and Michael Taussig.

Books Reviews: Denise Varney on Meg Mumford, Bryoni Trezise on Colette Conroy, Helen Freshwater, Helen Nicholson, Jen Harvie, Joe Kelleher, Paul Rae, Dan Rebellato, and Nicholas Ridout, Anna Scheer on Rune Gade and Anne Jerslev (eds.), Laura Ginters on Rachel Fensham, Adam Geczy on Edward Scheer, and Una Chaudhuri on Helena Grehan.

Table of Contents

Articles

Introduction to After Effects: Performing the Ends of Memory
Stephen Muecke
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A Stone Pretending to be a Landscape
Valerie Tring
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Dear Jimmie Durham, Dear John Citizen: I would like to ask you about contemporary art and politics.
Darren Jorgensen
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Vulture and its …
Nikos Papastergiadis
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On the train again: apparitions across the Nullarbor (to the spirit, not to the letter of Jimmie Durham)
Hamish Morgan
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“Is that a pistol in your pocket…?”: Corral Consciousness and the Performance of Enclosure and Concealment.
Misha Myers
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THIS: Message in a Bottle to Jimmie Durham
Kim Satchell
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Tall Stories: On poetical and non poetical prose and rhythms in fieldwork notes, July 2003, Colombia
Michael Taussig
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I had a Dream in Tropical Islands Resort in Berlin. Was it real?
Stephen Muecke
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Interviews & Dialogues

The ‘Nervous State’: A Conversation between Jimmie Durham and Mick Taussig
Jimmie Durham, Michael Taussig
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Book Reviews

Review of Bertolt Brecht, Meg Mumford (London & New York: Routledge 2009)
Denise Varney
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Review of Theatre & series, edited by Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2009- )
Bryoni Trezise
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Review of Performative Realism: Interdisciplinary Studies in Art and Media, edited by Rune Gade and Anne Jerslev (Copenhagen: Museum of Tusculanum Press, 2005)
Anna Scheer
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Review of To Watch Theatre. Essays on Genre and Corporeality, Rachel Fensham (Brussels, Bern, e.a.: PIE Peter Lang, 2009)
Laura Ginters
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Review of The Infinity Machine: Mike Parr’s Performance Art 1971-2005, Edward Scheer (Melbourne: Schwartz City Press 2009) Mike Parr: Performances 1971-2008, Mike Parr (Melbourne: Schwartz City Press 2008)
Adam Geczy
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Review of Performance, Ethics, and Spectatorship in a Global Age, Helena Grehan (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009)
Una Chaudhuri
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