Michel Oren
Biographic Data
| ID | 149158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michel Oren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michel |
| FAMILY NAME | Oren |
| SIGNATURE | OREN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Biennials that promote an ‘emancipatory politics’
This essay argues that smaller and more innovative art biennials offer a better chance for what postcolonial theory has termed an ‘emancipatory politics’ – one relatively free from Western hegemony, whether of global capitalism or the Euro-American art world. Such biennials typically exercise ‘powers of the weak’ through trickster tactics that allow them a momentary freedom before disintegration or institutionalization. In their experimental appr…
Beyond Ambivalence
Most Turkish artists who participated in two recent Istanbul Biennial exhibitions showed work that was tied to that country's urban sociopolitical scene or relations with other cultures. In addition, recurring Western Orientalist projections, acting as an irritant, have generated reciprocal ambivalences among contemporary Turkish artists. These sources have produced interesting art, within and outside the Biennial. This article describes several …
The Enigmatic Career of Hernton's Scarecrow
The Enigmatic Career of Hernton's Scarecrow Michel Oren (bio) and Calvin C. Hernton The late Calvin Hernton's sociological and critical works—especially Sex and Racism in America (1965) and The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers (1987)—tended to overshadow his poems and his novel. The following interview transcripts are presented in an attempt to correct this situation by calling readers' attention to the richness of polyvocal resonance and …
Contemporary art in Asia
(1997). Contemporary art in Asia: Traditions/tensions. Third Text: Vol. 11, No. 41, pp. 103-106
Worlds Envisioned
Anti-Art as the End of Cultural History
On the ‘Impurity’ of group f/64 photography
The final paradox of the search for purity is that it is an attempt to force experience into logical categories of non-contradiction. But experience is not amenable and those who make the attempt find themselves led into contradiction ... . A garden is not a tapestry; if all the weeds are removed, the soil is impoverished. Somehow the gardener must preserve fertility by returning what he has taken out. The special kind of treatment which some rel…
Biennials that promote an ‘emancipatory politics’
This essay argues that smaller and more innovative art biennials offer a better chance for what postcolonial theory has termed an ‘emancipatory politics’ – one relatively free from Western hegemony, whether of global capitalism or the Euro-American art world. Such biennials typically exercise ‘powers of the weak’ through trickster tactics that allow them a momentary freedom before disintegration or institutionalization. In their experimental appr…
On the ‘Impurity’ of group f/64 photography
The final paradox of the search for purity is that it is an attempt to force experience into logical categories of non-contradiction. But experience is not amenable and those who make the attempt find themselves led into contradiction ... . A garden is not a tapestry; if all the weeds are removed, the soil is impoverished. Somehow the gardener must preserve fertility by returning what he has taken out. The special kind of treatment which some rel…
On the ‘Impurity’ of group f/64 photography
The final paradox of the search for purity is that it is an attempt to force experience into logical categories of non-contradiction. But experience is not amenable and those who make the attempt find themselves led into contradiction ... . A garden is not a tapestry; if all the weeds are removed, the soil is impoverished. Somehow the gardener must preserve fertility by returning what he has taken out. The special kind of treatment which some rel…
Anti-Art as the End of Cultural History
Worlds Envisioned
Contemporary art in Asia
(1997). Contemporary art in Asia: Traditions/tensions. Third Text: Vol. 11, No. 41, pp. 103-106
The Enigmatic Career of Hernton's Scarecrow
The Enigmatic Career of Hernton's Scarecrow Michel Oren (bio) and Calvin C. Hernton The late Calvin Hernton's sociological and critical works—especially Sex and Racism in America (1965) and The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers (1987)—tended to overshadow his poems and his novel. The following interview transcripts are presented in an attempt to correct this situation by calling readers' attention to the richness of polyvocal resonance and …
Beyond Ambivalence
Most Turkish artists who participated in two recent Istanbul Biennial exhibitions showed work that was tied to that country's urban sociopolitical scene or relations with other cultures. In addition, recurring Western Orientalist projections, acting as an irritant, have generated reciprocal ambivalences among contemporary Turkish artists. These sources have produced interesting art, within and outside the Biennial. This article describes several …
Biennials that promote an ‘emancipatory politics’
This essay argues that smaller and more innovative art biennials offer a better chance for what postcolonial theory has termed an ‘emancipatory politics’ – one relatively free from Western hegemony, whether of global capitalism or the Euro-American art world. Such biennials typically exercise ‘powers of the weak’ through trickster tactics that allow them a momentary freedom before disintegration or institutionalization. In their experimental appr…
Art (6 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)