Talkin With Your Mouth Full

by Fagin, Steve; Bordowitz, Gregg (CON); Dick, Leslie (CON); Sobchack, Vivian (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822320692
• ISBN10: 082232069X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Steve Fagin is an artist whose videos incorporate, challenge, and cross over into the realm of literary and cultural studies.Talkinrs" with Your Mouth Fullincludes not only scripts of Faginrs"s works but critical responses to-and meditations on-a variety of his influential videos by a distinguished, if intriguingly disparate, group of artists and scholars. Combining elements of criticism with various modes of artistic expression, these responses take the form of reviews, letters, interviews, and in one case an imaginary TV programming schedule. Interspersed with-and sometimes literally interrupting-the video scripts, these contributions interact with one another on multiple levels and complement Faginrs"s scripts. Historical, political, and theoretical issues dovetail, ricochet, and interplay in this book, revealing a multiplicity of voices, concerns, and cultural revelations. Unique in its structure and intellectual approach,Talkinrs" with Your Mouth Fullwill appeal equally to those who have seen Faginrs"s videos and those who have not. Students of art history and cultural critique, and anyone interested in the ongoing dialogue between artists and theorists, will find particular value in this book.Contributors. Gregg Bordowitz, Constance DeJong, Leslie Dick, Steve Fagin, Barry Gifford, Victoria Gill, Bill Horrigan, Bertha Jottar, Ivone Margulies, Patricia Mellencamp, Margaret Morse, Constance Penley, Vicente L. Rafael, Mark Rappaport, Andrew Ross, Vivian Sobchack, Trinh T. Minh-ha, John Welchman, Peter Wollen

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Virtual Play: The Double Direct Monkey Wrench in Black's Machinery (1984)

Waking and Shaking

Excerpts from Virtual Play

Dear Steve

Lou: A Superficial Look

The Amazing Voyage of Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel (1986)

The Occidental Tourist: Steve Fagin's Virtual Voyage for Armchair Travelers

An Interview with Steve Fagin

Script of The Amazing Voyage

For Steve Fagin Who Made The Amazing Voyage of Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel Whose Fathers and Mothers

A Woman's Face

In Search of the Big Perfect

The Machine That Killed Bad People (1990)

Disastrous Events

Machine Talk

Excerpts from The Machine

Updates: Doubled Histories

Voice-Over I

TV Guidance

Zero Degrees Latitude (1993)

Confessions of a Quiet American: Fagin's Anemic Anesthetics

Voice-Over from Zero Degrees Latitude

Out in Left Field

Excerpts from Zero Degrees Latitude

Diary

Memorial Day (Observed) (1995)

Ohio Impromptu

Excerpts from Memorial Day (Observed)

Last Words

Faces, Boxes, and The Moves

Notes

Contributors

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