Wilma Cruise
Biographic Data
| ID | 5226835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilma Cruise |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilma |
| FAMILY NAME | Cruise |
| SIGNATURE | CRUISE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Recently she embarked on printmaking, working at the David Krut Print Workshop in collaboration with print master Jill Ross. Cruise is also the editor of Views and (re)views. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Take a bow
Bentham’s query “[...] the question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But, Can they suffer?” (Bentham 8) drew attention away from language and the interior life of animals and focused it instead on the question of suffering. Just what suffering is left to the human to decide; a debate, which forms a large part of the discourse in the animal rights movement. But what happens if we were to return to the unanswered part of Bentham’s quote, …
Revisiting Alice
Responding to the need to “think of unheard thoughts about animals” (Calarco 2008: 6) I explore the “question of the animal” through the art object. In so doing I interrogate the efficacy of art in effecting social change. I examine the problematic question of humankind's relationship to the animal by revisiting the children's tales Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass. In so doing I touch on questions such as sentience, anthro…
New York .03.07
We landed a few days before the start of spring in a raging blizzard. New York was covered in white, which soon turned to a dirty brown. The snow banked up on either side of the streets and the pavements, and, depending on the temperature and time of day, alternated between rivulets of dirty water or freezing slabs of ice upon which it was almost impossible to walk. But it was not just the weather that overwhelmed me. The city assaulted me
Views and (re)views
On curating Earthworks/Claybodies
"On curating Earthworks/Claybodies: an exhibition of ceramic sculpture." de arte, 38(68), pp. 57–58
La Biennale
Collections Update
Noise pollution at the 1999 FNB Vita Prize exhibition
Second Johannesburg Biennale 1997
Books
The 1991 Triennial
People and Places
How do artists and art historians respond to people and places? In this new section we ask people in the art world who have travelled and pondered on art, architecture and humanity, to give us thei
Take a bow
Bentham’s query “[...] the question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But, Can they suffer?” (Bentham 8) drew attention away from language and the interior life of animals and focused it instead on the question of suffering. Just what suffering is left to the human to decide; a debate, which forms a large part of the discourse in the animal rights movement. But what happens if we were to return to the unanswered part of Bentham’s quote, …
People and Places
How do artists and art historians respond to people and places? In this new section we ask people in the art world who have travelled and pondered on art, architecture and humanity, to give us thei
The 1991 Triennial
Books
Second Johannesburg Biennale 1997
Noise pollution at the 1999 FNB Vita Prize exhibition
Collections Update
La Biennale
On curating Earthworks/Claybodies
"On curating Earthworks/Claybodies: an exhibition of ceramic sculpture." de arte, 38(68), pp. 57–58
New York .03.07
We landed a few days before the start of spring in a raging blizzard. New York was covered in white, which soon turned to a dirty brown. The snow banked up on either side of the streets and the pavements, and, depending on the temperature and time of day, alternated between rivulets of dirty water or freezing slabs of ice upon which it was almost impossible to walk. But it was not just the weather that overwhelmed me. The city assaulted me
Views and (re)views
Revisiting Alice
Responding to the need to “think of unheard thoughts about animals” (Calarco 2008: 6) I explore the “question of the animal” through the art object. In so doing I interrogate the efficacy of art in effecting social change. I examine the problematic question of humankind's relationship to the animal by revisiting the children's tales Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass. In so doing I touch on questions such as sentience, anthro…
Take a bow
Bentham’s query “[...] the question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But, Can they suffer?” (Bentham 8) drew attention away from language and the interior life of animals and focused it instead on the question of suffering. Just what suffering is left to the human to decide; a debate, which forms a large part of the discourse in the animal rights movement. But what happens if we were to return to the unanswered part of Bentham’s quote, …
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Environmental Science (2 works)