Table of Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: Why Visibility Matters Zeena Feldman 1
Recognition and Misunderstanding 1
Reading Visual Culture Through the Politics of Visibility 4
1 Chinese Artist Films in the Transnational Art World: Yang Fudong and the Politics of Precarity Chris Berry 21
Introduction 21
The Precarious Gesture in Yang Fudong's Work 25
The Precarious Space of the Artscape 33
The Politics of the Precarious Gesture 42
2 The Blind Spots of Representation: The Difficulty of Reading Juliet Steyn 53
3 Defiant Embodiments and the Gender Geopolitics of Seeing M. I. Franklin 73
Introduction 73
Rationale and Argument 77
Intellectual Background 79
Veiled Bodies Misbehaving: 'Islam is the New Black' 81
Naked Bodies in/as Protest 91
Analysis: Modalities of Refusal 98
Conclusion: The Geopolitics of Seeing 103
4 (In)Visibility as Resistance: Performing the Right to Disappear in J. M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K Patrick Hanafin 115
Introduction 115
Narrative Voice and Writing as Effacement 118
Tactical Invisibility or a Poetics of Disappearance 122
Conclusion 129
5 Valences of Subjectivity: The Politics of Personal Narrative in Video Art Rachel Garfield 137
Contemporary Contexts: From Race to Faith and the Persistence of Visual Codes 137
Some Historical Junctures in Art 148
The Personal Narrative 152
6 Hauntology and Hospitality in the Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Janet Harbord 167
The Beginning 167
The Beginning II 169
Haunted Film 174
Spectral Knowledge 178
Hospitality: A Seat at the Table 181
7 Ethics and Visual Culture Zeena Feldman 189
Bibliography 211
Index 225