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Do You See It? Well, It Doesn’t See You!
Anne Anlin Cheng and Tom Holert
Tom Holert: A key point in both Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface (2011) and its accompanying essay “Shine: On Race, Glamour, and the Modern” of the same year is what you have poignantly and paradoxically called the “disappearance into appearance,” referencing the particular “shimmering, excessively ornamentalized performance” of Anna May Wong in the 1929 movie Piccadilly . This act of disappearing, this loss of visibility in derealizing hypervisuality, runs against…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
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Interviews & Conversations, Gender, Race & Ethnicity, Psychology & Psychoanalysis