Thinking Will, Episode 4: Art and Trauma

Thinking while walking my infant son, I enter the wide terrain of “Art and Trauma” headed toward the notion of “damage-centered research” articulated by Eve Tuck in her open letter of 2009. Why would we doubt that artists can express traumatic experiences without reifying the damage caused through such experiences? It turns out that this is the important question.

Listen to other episodes of “Thinking Will”

EPISODE 1

(The Pharmakon of Conspiracy Theories)

EPISODE 2

(Death onstage - death in life)

EPISODE 3

(The Performativity of Plants)

EPISODE 5

(Conversing with Others)

EPISODE 6

(The Problem with Problems)

EPISODE 7

(Thinking With: Gregory Hicks, “To Feel Each Other’s Pain”)

EPISODE 8

(Thinking With: Gloria Imseih Petrelli, “Devising Possible Futures”)

EPISODE 9

(Thinking With: Nico Swenson, “What An Individual Isn’t”)