WRECK – Volume 5, Number 1
On the Threshold In recent decades a number of disparities have underscored inadequacies of justice, capital, medical, and sociopolitical conditions that we now must grapple with as our relationship to space and time has been upended. We remain in a space of negotiation within society and are at a threshold for how we want to […]
WRECK – Volume 2, Issue 1
“(Re)presenting Power” State, economic, and bureaucratic power possess a capillary quality, working their way into the bodies, attitudes, and everyday actions of people. However, power would be ephemeral if flowing only from the top down — as a means to suppress, coerce, or censor. Not restricting knowledge, power produces it. It remains potent owing to […]
WRECK – Volume 2, Issue 2
Proceedings from Obsolete Concepts: Formative Lingerings, March 28-29, 2008 Foreword Beauty, Truth, Objectivity, Formalism, Avant-garde. Each of these words represents a concept that at one moment or another carried the weight necessary to form a historian’s vision. As students of Art History – as future Art Historians – we found it prudent to question the […]
WRECK – Volume 3, Issue 1
Material Affinities: Intersections that Matter Acknowledgements As guest editors we wish to acknowledge the support of the many people who made this issue of WRECK possible. Firstly, the symposium itself would not have taken place without the financial and administrative support of the AHVA department at UBC including Whitney Friesen, Audrey Van Slyck and Dr. […]
WRECK – Volume 4, Issue 1
Processes of Change: Translation, Metamorphosis, and Conversion Guest Co-Editors: Lisa Andersen and Joan Boychuk Introduction: Processes of Change by Lisa Andersen and Joan Boychuk Clean Air, Clear Water: Vapourization and the Anonymous Corpse in Teresa Margolles’ Plancha by Daniella Sanader This essay explores how the vapourization of water creates a disarming phenomenological, emotional, and political […]