Goldsmiths - Centre for Cultural Studies presents a talk:
by Professor Michael Taussig
3 May 2006 Goldsmiths College BP Lecture Theatre (scribble Bldg) 1pm.
Title: Sailing Through Color
Absrtract: "I want to give a 'color-reading' of Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific, understanding color as a living force taking you into the object of study. This is part of a book I am working on called "What is the Color of the Sacred,?" The title comes from surrealist-ethnographer Michel Leiris and my jumping off point come from Goethe's 1810 book on color where he states that people of refinement are averse to vivid colors whereas "man in astate of nature," kids, the women of southern Italy, love them. Seeing modern world history as the struggle between chromophobes and chromophilliacs, I side with Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs, and Marcel Proust is seeing color as something alive, like an animal, akin to what I call 'magical polymorphous substance.'
see you there.
John
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