The Contemporary Project

Kaja Silverman
Book Launch and Discussion with Author

Flesh of My Flesh
NOV 10, 2009
12:30 - 2PM
SOS 250

Through a wide-ranging discussion that extends from Ovid and Leonardo da Vinci to Gerhard Richter, and from philosophy and literature to time-based art, Kaja Silverman's Flesh of My Flesh shows that the master myth of western subjectivity is the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, not that of Oedipus, and this Janus-faced myth has the capacity both to detsroy and to save us.

Kaja Silvermna, Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film at the University of California at Berkley, is the author of seven books including World Spectators, The Threshold of the Visual World, Male Subjectivity at the Margins, The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema; and The Subject of Semiotics. Her new book, Flesh of My Flesh, has just been published by Stanford University Press. Silverman's writing and teaching are focused primarliy on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, photography, time-based visual art and literature.

Please join us for a book launch and celebration of Flesh of My Flesh. Kaja Silverman will engage in a dialogue with Akira Mizuta Lippit, Professor, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Cinematice Arts(Chair, Critical Studies) and Richard Meyer, Associate Professor, Art Hisotry and Fine Arts (Director, VSGC and The Contemporary Project). All are welcome.

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The Contemporary Project (TCP), organized by Richard Meyer,is a multi-year endeavor to create new dialogues and forms of collaboration between the academic community and the contemporary art world. Please click here for ongoing TCP events.

Jointly sponsored by the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and the Roski School of Fine Arts,TCPaims to bring the best of academic culture (e.g. respect for ideas, historical consciousness, student energy and open-mindedness) into conversation with contemporary art, curatorial practice, and criticism. We plan to partner, as appropriate, with museums, alternative art spaces, publications, research institutes, fellow universities, and art schools.