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Relevant passages:
Inke Arns «Social Technologies
Deconstruction, subversion, and the utopia of democratic communication»
Mona Hatoum
«Measures of Distance»
This videotape is perhaps the most touching of Mona Hatoum’s artistic statement in which she examines her position as an exiled female artist. The author’s voice translates letters of her mother from Arab into English, represented visually as a texture of calligraphy over the texture of her body and skin. Measuring a multitude of distances/oppositions or differences between home and exile, writing and reading, reading and translating, mother and daughter, autobiography and artistic invention.
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