Susan Jarosi, Ph.D.

Publications: 

Articles 

“Traumatic Subjectivity and the Continuum of History: Hermann Nitsch’s Orgies Mysteries Theater,” Art History 36, no. 4 (September 2013); available January 2013 online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8365/earlyview.

“Recycled Cinema as Material Ecology: Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s Found-Footage Films and Computer-Laser-Videos,” Screen 53, no. 3 (Autumn 2012): 228-245.

“The Image of the Artist in Performance Art: The Case of Rudolf Schwarzkogler,” Art and Documentation 5 (Autumn 2011): 63-80.

Translator, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, “Panorama 1: The Total Act Manifesto” (1965), Art and Documentation 5 (Autumn 2011): 143.

Chapters in Books

“Keeping Score: Considering Performance Texts as Artists’ Writings,” in Helena De Preester, ed., Not a Day Without a Line – Understanding Artists’ Writings, volume under review with Manchester University Press for the Rethinking Art’s Histories Series.

“The Audience Cries Back,” in Kathryn Brown, ed., New Interactive Practices in Contemporary Art (London: I.B. Tauris), forthcoming 2013.

“‘The Grünewald of Happenings’—On Traumatic Subjectivity,” in Aaron Levy, ed., Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America (Philadelphia: Slought Books, 2008), 94-115.

Reprinted in Nikolai Molok, ed., Hermann Nitsch, exh. cat. (Moscow: Stella Art Foundation, 2010).

“An Interview with Billie Maciunas,” in Ken Friedman, ed., The Fluxus Reader (London: Academy Editions, 1998), 199-211.

Books

Picturing Trauma: A Holographic Paradigm of Contemporary Art

Asserts the centrality of visuality for the study of trauma by examining the correspondences between the etiology of trauma as defined by clinical study, therapeutic treatments of trauma using visual technologies such as virtual reality, and the representation of traumatic subjectivity by contemporary artists.

Catalogues

Editor and “Introduction,” The Art of Experience: Fluxus Works from the Collection of Michael Lowe, exh. cat. (University of Louisville, Department of Fine Arts, 2008).

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to Present

Twentieth-Century Art

Art Since 1945

Modern Perspectives in the Visual Arts

History of Performance Art

Pop Art & Fluxus

Representations of Trauma in the Visual Arts

Installation Art

Women in Performance Art

History of Documenta

Artists' Writings

Art & Feminism