VAR 36.2 FALL 2020

 
grey and pink concrete with white painted line

Empathy, Care, and Dialogue

FIONA P. MCDONALD & STEPHANIE SADRE-ORAFAI

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weathered road with cracked yellow paint

Expanding the Role of the Book Review

NATALIE UNDERBERG-GOODE

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grey concrete with white straight line and yellow shapes painted

Under Review

EUGENIA KISIN

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wing found in Bloomsbury on the road on a rainy day

Commodity Violence

S. LOCHLANN JAIN

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A fruit packer wearing a green t-shirt, white and green scarf, and pink visor looks over their shoulder next to three other people on commercial farm in North Carolina.

Shifting the Contours of Public Engagement

WILLIAM L. ALEXANDER
MARY K. BRANNOCK &
ANTHONY GUEVARA

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a man in the water holds a baby as he struggles to walk off an orange dingy boat

Visual Regimes of Mobility

PINELOPI TOPALI

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Two sketches of the alcove with two ghost scrolls in Manshu-in where photography is prohibited. The top image was drawn during a visit on June 14, 2017. The revised version below is based on the first sketch and photos found online. Drawings by Can …

The Ghost Scrolls of Manshu-in and Tokugen-in

CAN TAMURA

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A hand drawn map on an interior wall

Cultivated Affects

COLIN MCLAUGHLIN-ALCOCK

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two women in Nuosu dresses, holding hands and looking at each other

Retro Nuosu

KAITLIN BANFILL

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A teenager stands, gesturing with a finger pointing up, in a living room surrounded by three members of her family, all of whom are seated and watching the father who is talking and gesturing with his hand and eyebrows raised.

En Mi Casa Quiero Señas

ANNE E. PFISTER

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Back: Csángáló plays with his son Tocsila at the funeral wake of his mother. Front: two women (Csángáló’s sisters) cry.

Between Film and the World

FILIPPO BONINI BARALDI

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A woman sits on the edge of her bed laughing at the television.

THE PAGE

Living at the LUX

LINDSAY RAISA FELDMAN
MICHAEL VICENTE PÉREZ

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A man in a blue shirt with his mouth open singing stands next to a man playing a bagpipe (Nicola Scaldaferri). Another man (Steven Feld) crouches behind them wearing DSM microphones on his head to record the audio.

DIALOGUE

Resounding Participatory Ethnography

PANAYOTIS PANOPOULOS
NICOLA SCALDAFERRI &
STEVEN FELD

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green tinted photograph of soldiers holding up posters

BOOK REVIEW

Guerrilla Marketing

ALEJANDRO JARAMILLO

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drawn image of two girls smiling with leaves in the background

BOOK REVIEW

Lissa

LIAM ESPINOZA-ZEMLICKA

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Fireworks in the night sky over teepees and parked cars in an open space

FILM REVIEW

Dislocation Blues

SANDER HOLGSENS

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A person in a black tank top and red patterned skit stands in the foreground with one hand on their hip, holding a camera, and the other by their mouth as if shouting. A person a few feet behind them in billowing gray and blue patterned pants, a pur…

FILM REVIEW

Jaddoland

NATALIE NESVADERANI &
MIASARAH LAI

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Detail of one of artist Virgil Ortiz’s Venutian Soldiers, photographed with an illusion of depth. A mannequin is outfitted in a gasmask, leather cap, mohawk, and feather on its head with coils wrapped around its neck and metallic sequin paillettes d…

EXHIBITION REVIEW

Indigenous Futurisms

LILLIA MCENANEY

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SUPPLEMENTS

1. a man in the water holds a baby as he struggles to walk off an orange dingy boat

Visual Regimes of Mobility

PINELOPI TOPALI

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two women in Nuosu dresses, holding hands and looking at each other

Retro Nuosu

KAITLIN BANFILL

SUPPLEMENT

 UPDATED JUNE 23, 2022