rainwolfkin

i just found out i got the next 6 days off!! whoooo!
so since i got the weekend off too, we could go camden during the day! i haven't done that for aaages! the camden weekend thing that is. so let me know if you can do either saturday or sunday. i really need to go to that gun shop... i was looking at the site again last night and.. it felt like i was a teenager looking at porn sites. oh, i'm so gonna buy one.. or two..
they're fuckin pricey, and i may owe 12000 to my bank and i may be reaching my limit on my credit card, but i'll be damned if i don't buy somethin from in there!!
i'm a bit excited..
i'll let you know about friday night.

*fuckin typos

[Edited on Aug 24, 2005 6:56PM]

My last paper was centered on an artist, Coco Fusco, and how she challenges the way institutions (museums, and other cultural institutions) present stereotypes (usually over-sexualized... and scandelous stereotypes) as the "savage untamed other". However, she also explores how the cultures that are often represented by these stereotypes use the stereotype in the tourist industry. Thus, it becomes a self-fulfilling process. Westerners expect the "savage" and the culture presents it to them to boost the tourist industry... It becomes this theatrical thing

I've been reading a lot of Homi Bhabha's Location of Culture. And there was this great essay on Coco Fusco, (as well as a transcription of an interview with Fusco and fellow performer Nao Bustamante) by Caroline Vercoe called Agency and Ambivalence: A Reading of Works by Coco Fusco in Body Politics and the Fictional Double. Very cool... actually I recommend the whole book.

That's sort of where I'm at. I really need to re work my essay now that I have some more ideas... but hopefully I'll get it published someday.