Current & Past Events
White Reading Group
Taking Richard Dyer’s White as its object of study, the white reading group meets to discuss Dyer’s work, which traces representations of whiteness in Western visual culture through photography, fine art, cinema, television, and advertising.
Originally published in the form of an essay in the British film journal, Screen, Dyer’s investigation into the concept of whiteness has developed into a book length project, which has also made a critical contribution to the study of white privilege and its manifestation in visual culture.
In this session, the group continues discussing excerpts from Chapter 2: Coloured white, not coloured. Note that participants are not required to read the text before meeting as copies of the text are available during the session and are read during the meeting.
- host:
- Eryne Donahue
- date & time:
- April 21st, 2008 at 7 pm
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Eryne Donahue is an artist, writer, and astrologer working in Vancouver, Canada. She is concerned with all categories and typologies and how they are determined and upheld in the contemporary psyche. Her work and research has spanned the breadth of sciences and medicine, nostalgic tricks of memory and classical pseudo sciences in various forms of physically labour-intensive media.
Her current interest in “White Studies” has led her to recently perform whiteness by writing a horoscope column “Art Stars” in the San Diego-based Article Journal and by creating video and photo-based work featuring classical busts carved from her saliva.
Event Images & Documentation
Richard Dyer, White .