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2012

L’interdisciplinarité: travailler avec des concepts
“L’interdisciplinarité: travailler avec des concepts.” In La circulation des savoirs. Interdisciplinarité, concepts nomades, analogies, métaphores. Edited by Frédéric Darbellay.Bern, Berlin etc. Peter Lang, 25-58, 2012
This article takes up, in compressed form, issues from my book Travelling Concepts in the Humanities.
In this collective volume of French and Swiss scholars, both humanists and scientists, a new and wider context for the ideas brings them to a potentially new audience.

Spatialising Film
“Spatialising Film.” in Hunting High and Low. Festschrift for Jostein Gripsrud.
Edited by Jan Fredrik Hovden and Karl Knapskog. Scandinavian Academic Press 2012
This article in a volume dedicated to an old friend discusses what it entailed for Michelle Williams Gamaker and myself to turn our feature film A Long History of Madness official website. into an exhibition.

Cultural Analysis – Joseph Plays
“Cultural Analysis – Joseph Plays.”Mieke Bal, Maaike Bleeker, Bennett Carpenter and Frans-Willem Korsten. In Joost van den Vondel (1587-1669): Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age.Eds. Jan Bloemendal & Frans-Willem Korsten. Leiden: Brill, 317-340, 2012
My contribution to this collective article was to confront the interpretation of the Joseph story in Vondel’s plays with Rembrandt’s visual rewriting of it, as I had developed earlier in Loving Yusuf

2011

Heterochrony in the Act: The Migratory Politics of Time
“Heterochrony in the Act: The Migratory Politics of Time.” Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture: Conflict, Resistance, and Agency. Eds. Mieke Bal and Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 211-139, 2011
This article foregrounds the importance of the experience of time in migratory culture as an issue of “migratory politics”. Sensitizing oneself to the heterogeneity of time can be a great asset in intercultural communication.

Losing It: Politics of the Other (Medium)
“Losing It: Politics of the Other (Medium).” Journal of Visual Culture, 10, 3: 372-396
Based on the cinematic work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila, an inquiry in the affective effects of a heterogeneity that includes murder, maidenhood and madness. The article explores the encounter with other media and other people, and also invokes a work by Stan Douglas and one by Chantal Akerman.

Earth Aches: The Aesthetics of the Cut
“Earth Aches: the Aesthetics of the Cut.” In Cornerstones, edited by Juan A. Gaitán, Rotterdam, NL: Witte de With Publishers / Sternberg Press, 212-225
An overview of Doris Salcedo’s artistic practice, more extensively discussed in the book Of What One Cannot Speak.

Baroque Matters
“Baroque Matters.” In Rethinking the Baroque, edited by Helen Hills, Surray, UK: Ashgate, 183-202
Exploring the baroque aspects of four very diverse contemporary artworks, by Doris Salcedo, Ann Veronica Janssens, Roos Theuws and Heringa/Van Kalsbeek purchase

An Inter-Action: Rembrandt and Spinoza
“An Inter-Action: Rembrandt and Spinoza.” With Dimitris Vardoulakis. In Spinoza Now, edited by Dimitris Vardoualkis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 277-306
Probing how visual art “thinks” and philosophy “images”. The relationship between the two figures is not based on biography but on what they made/wrote

Interdisciplinarity: Working with concepts
“Interdisciplinarity: Working with concepts.” Filolog III, 11-28 (Servia) 2011
A revised patchwork extract from the book Travelling Concepts

Food, Form, and Visibility
“Food, Form, and Visibility: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life”In Morphomata. Kulturelle Figurationen: Genese, Dynamik und Medialität, edited by Günter Bamberger und Dietrich Boschung. Köln: Morphomata 1
article based on the film GLUB (Hearts)

A Thousand and One Voices
“A Thousand and One Voices” In Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics and Politics under the Sign of Globalisation, eds. Mads Anders Baggesgaard, Jakob Ladegaard, 269-304. Aarhus University Press, 2011
article based on the film Mille et un jours

Mektoub: When Art Meets History, Philosophy, and Linguistics
“Mektoub: When Art Meets History, Philosophy, and Linguistics.” In Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Research, ed. Allen F. Repko, Williams H. Newell, and Rick Szostak, 91–122. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2011
article analyses Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Where is Where? (2008)

2010

Deborah
“Deborah.” In The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed. Daniel Patte, 313. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Interview with Mieke Bal in Ekfrase
Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind Vågnes, “Migrasjonstenkeren: Et Intervju Med Mieke Bal.” Ekfrase: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture 1.1 (2010): 46–54.

True Lies: on Ana Torfs’s Du mentir-faux, or Some Dilemmas of History
“True Lies: on Ana Torfs’s Du mentir-faux, or Some Dilemmas of History.” In HiO-report 12: Framing War with Facts and Fiction in the Cultural Field, ed. Rune Ottosen and Solveig Steigen, 28–51. Oslo: Oslo University College, 2010

Working with Concepts
“Working with Concepts.” Slovo a smysl/Word & Sense 11/12 (2009): 202–12

The Quoted Artist
“The Quoted Artist.” Italian Journal 20, no. 3 (2010):40–43

Religion and Powerlessness: Elena in Nothing Is Missing
“Religion and Powerlessness: Elena in Nothing Is Missing.” In Powers: Religion as a Social and Spriritual Force, ed. Meerten B. ter Borg and Jan Willem van Henten, 209–239. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010

Exhibition Practices
“Guest Column: Exhibition Practices.” PMLA 125, no. 1 (2010): 9–23

After-Images: Mère folle
“After-Images: Mère folle.” Nomadikon: About Images 7 (2010)