Gregory Minissale Heads, skulls, and faces are used in many cultures and periods to mark boundaries between sacred and profane spaces. They are present on the edges of frames in paintings to signify a sacred space within. They are found…
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The Headdress in Popular Culture, Haute Couture, and the Complications of Kent Monkmanās Another Feather in her Bonnet
Nicole Perry The cover of the July 2014 Elle UK magazine featured the American singer and record producer Pharrell Williams wearing a āhipster Headdress.ā The backlash to the magazine cover was swift and damning, with fans of the artist using…
Branding Realpolitik: a Discussion of Vanguard Politics and Frank SchƤtzingās Non-Fiction Eco-Thriller Was, wenn wir einfach die Welt retten?
Angela Kƶlling āIn mass media, the figures of ātalking headsā speak as agents of radically heterogeneous interests ā corporate sponsors, administrative hierarchies, journalistic canons, market shares.ā (W.J.T. Mitchell, 20) In June 2021 the regional German newspaper I buy when I…
āThe Golden Age of the Cheekboneā:Ā Beauty, Race, and Bones in Golden-age Hollywood
Tracy Adams Hollywood and the modern beauty-industrial complex have trained several generations of western men and women to regard high cheekbones as a marker of female beauty.[1] Few living today within societies that prize āwhiteā features would dispute the point,…
Kristevan Head Cases: Bettina Flitnerās EuropƤerinnen and Annie Leibovitzās Women
Susan Ingram How can the loss be witnessed or exposed, rather than repressed, but in such a way that at the same time the healing process and political transformation can begin?[1] In Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art…
The Head – A Conversation with Artist-Academic Selina Tusitala Marsh with Coline Souilhol
Coline Souihol This open conversation was conducted on 24 May 2023, in the office of Artist-Academic Selina Tusitala Marsh in the English Department at the University of Auckland. Coline Souilhol: This issue of Drain explores the various representations and perceptions…
Heads from Hands – A Conversation with Aaron Obbeek by Greg Minissale
Greg Minissale All images by and courtesy the artist. Aaron Obeek is a sculptural and ceramic artist from Åtepoti/Dunedin, who graduated in 2021 with a BVA from Dunedin School of Art. His work has always been informed by the natural…
The Ulumate Project: Sacredness of Human Hair – A Conversation with Daren Kamali
Nicole Perry The Ulumate Project: The Sacredness of Human Hair centred around the Fijian custom of wig ceremonies in times of mourning.Ā Ā Ā Ā Nicole Perry: Daren, would you mind telling us a little bit about yourself to begin with? Daren Kamali:…
T[x]me
CÄdric Tai T(x)me [time] is supposed to be a contextual thing, but the variable is in the middle, like jelly filling, or a hole in the head. I know that brilliant people are studying Time as a phenomenon of culture,…
All Shook Up
Bean Gilsdorf The operation is actually quite simple: As a person’s image is repeated and repeated in the media, they seem to become less a flesh-and-blood human and more of a diaphanous cultural figure, as though every instance of their…