Gina Pane, Cinq blessures – Partition pour un goûter (five wounds – partition for a snack), 1986, Copper, brass, glass,and photographs 315 x 215 cm (124" x 84 5/8") Each piece: 55 x 65 cm (21 5/8" x 25 5/8")
Tag: wounds
Rosi Braidotti
Gina Pane, detail of “Action: A Hot Afternoon”, 1977
Carlos Martiel, Trophy, 2016. Photographed by Annamaria La Mastra.
“I’m lying down in a fetal position with a hunting arrow crossing my waist.”
Eliza Griswold from Wideawake Field
“The Lost and Unlost Poetry and the irrevocable past”; CAROLYN FORCHE INTERVIEWED BY THE EDITORS of Poetry Magazine
Can the poetry of witness be a purely spiritual phenomenon? That is, can the dynamic that you’re describing in this essay, the permanent wounding of consciousness and language, occur from metaphysical, as well as physical, trauma?
If we think of the spiritual as a way of knowing, one can be wounded spiritually. Jean-François Lyotard would argue that the language of the Torah is permanently wounded by the experience of the divine. Jacob endures wrestling with the stranger, his angel. The slightest shock or event can send you from one thinking to another; trauma is said to occur when this shock is sufficiently strong as to overwhelm. If the experience of God is traumatic, it is because we meet with the incommensurate.
Untitled, Kiki Smith, 1995.
Lucas Cranach, Pieta beneath the Cross, circa 1510
Catherine Opie, “Julie (play piercing).” Girlfriends. New York: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 2010.
Little Bristling Soul 