The Irreducible Difference of the Other

• Published in: Estudios irlandeses no. 10; pp. 209 - 211
• Main Author: Leahy, Eileen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Seattle AEDEI 01-01-2015; Dra. Rosa Gonzalez on behalf of AEDEI
• Subjects: Actors; Akhmatova, Anna (1889-1966); Artaud, Antonin (1896-1948); Avant-garde; Documentary films; Dramatists; Editing; Feminism; Motion picture festivals; Otherness; New York; Scotland; Cairo Egypt; Ireland
• ISSN: 1699-311X; 1699-311X

Lux Scotland has recently shown Dick's Staten Island (1978) and her Irish film Visibility: Moderate (1981) before it's screening of Irreducible... [...]The Irreducible Difference of the Other seems to be always directly linked to her earlier work in its exhibition contexts. The fleeting glimpse of a red table surrounded by chairs outside a café in the overhead street scene, for example, hits a note that is repeated in the table and chairs on the rooftop garden terrace, in the red jumper of the gardener who kneels on the ground and whose pose is mirrored in the figure of Fouéré, shot from overhead, kneeling to drink water from a stream and again in the barely distinguishable red of the sculptor's dust-laden hat as she bends over her work. [...]The Irreducible Difference of the Other constructs links between and across identities, selves and others.