Patrolling the border between art and politics
Vocabulary shift: from controversy to difficulty
Three case studies in difficulty and the problem of affect
A blank: Aliza Shvarts, untitled
Theater of cruelty: Thomas Eakins, the gross clinic
Touchy subject: Ron Athey, incorruptible flesh: dissociative sparkle
Thinking feeling: criticism and emotion
What happened to feeling?
The difficulty of sentimentality: Franko B's I miss you!
The strange theatricality of tears: nao Bustamante's Neapolitan
Relational aesthetics and affective labor
Feeling overdetermined: identity, emotion, and history
The difficulty of identity
James Luna's the history of the Luiseño people (Christmas, La Jolla Reservation).
Difficulty and ideologies of emotion.
Carrie Mae Weems's From here I saw what happened and I cried.
David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Hujar Dead).
