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From Open Culture: Simone de Beauvoir Explains “Why I’m a Feminist” in a Rare TV Interview (1975) [YouTube]
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DOCC 2013 Video Dialogues
Discussion area for the DOCC 2013 Video Dialogues as they are released:
Transformations – Donna Haraway, Catherine Lord, and Beatriz da Costa: http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/groups/docc-2013-video-dialogs/forum/topic/transformations-donna-haraway-catherine-lord-and-beatriz-da-costa/
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From the site:
"Beatriz da Costa’s triptych video art installation, Dying For the Other, provides a visual representation of the artist’s own transformations; she documented her transformation from artist to subject, from patient to medical research, from living to dying. Through this documentation da Costa challenges many of the conventions of being a cancer patient, of being an artist and of dying. The video features footage of transgenic mice that are being used in cancer research. Beatriz da Costa’s art contains many truths and ways of knowing that do not fit neatly into the constructs of knowledge that academia and the dominant culture consider to be scientific disciplines. Art became science, science became art, and in that process truths were revealed that transcend classification. The parallels drawn between the lived experiences of the transgenic mice and the lived experiences of Beatriz herself transcend into commonality through their collective processes of dying. As Donna Haraway states in the FemTechNet Dialogue: Feminism, Technology, and Transformation, “Perhaps the mice feel pain. Perhaps their naked skin will burn and shed, except of course, that it is they that are dying for the other, and I am the other. I should be grateful to them and their pain, and to Beatriz who in the scheme of things was also a lab animal serving a larger agenda.”
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