Chères et chers collègues,
J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication du numéro 13 de la revue SYNTHESIS coordonné par Naomi Toth (CREA, Université Paris Nanterre, IUF).
Je vous en souhaite bonne lecture.
Hélène Aji
Synthesis n° 13, Just Art: Documentary Poetics and Justice, edited and introduced by Naomi Toth, is now online here :
https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/synthesis/issue/view/1640
Covering contemporary documentary works across a broad range of mediums, the articles, interview and conversation piece brought together in this issue all debate art’s potential for justice, from the perspectives of both practitioners and critics. You will find the table of contents below. Special thanks to Lily Hibberd and the Parragirls Memory Project for permission to use a still from their immersive art film Parragirls Past, Present (2017) on the cover. Many thanks also to the editorial board of Synthesis at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mata Dimakopoulou, Maro Germanou & Mina Karavanta.
Just Art. Documentary Poetics and Justice
Table of Contents
Articles
Introduction: Just Art. Documentary Poetics and Justice.
Naomi Toth
What testimony does to literature
Frédérik Detue and Charlotte Lacoste
Can Trauma be Told? Juridical Discourse and Affect in Vanessa Place’s Statement of Facts
Francis Haselden
Out of Bounds: Confronting War Crimes and the Breakdown of Justice with Contemporary Art
Catherine Bernard
Rebalancing the extra-judicial scales: Documentary aesthetics and the legacy of the Central Park Five
Sofia Baliño Rios
Reflections
Parragirls Past, Present: Unlocking Memories of Institutional ‘Care’: witnessing and creative reparation in the aftermath of Parramatta Girls Home
Naomi Toth and Lily Hibberd
Poetics/Documents/Justice
Susan Briante, Philip Metres, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Craig Santos-Perez
Interview
“The Quarrel with Ourselves”. An Interview with Marjorie Perloff
Naomi Toth, Marjorie Perloff
Book Review
Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni, eds. Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma
Iro Filippaki
EDITORS’ CHOICES
Editor’s Note: Giving Presence to the Present
Mina Karavanta
Notes Towards an Exilic Consciousness
R. Radhakrishnan
Art’s political criticality: At the thresholds of difference and eventuality
Elena Tzelepis
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