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Patricia Rozema and City Artists
Rozema: General Intro.
“In the Various Restaurants”
Outline
1. Rozema: general introduction
2. Rozema on Places and City
3. Artists on the margins of society
4. The multiple spaces of female artists
social control and invasion
5. Feminist ways of liberation from, participation in and critique of society.
6. “In the Various Restaurants”
Patricia Rozema Born to a Dutch immigrant family in
southern Ontario; B.A. with double major in philosophy
& English literature.
(image source)
Patricia Rozema on the set of Desperanto source
Rozema: Filmography Mansfield Park (1999) "Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach" (1997) Ba
ch Cello Suite #6: Six Gestures (1997) When Night Is Falling (1995) Montréal vu par... (1991) (segment "Des
peranto") White Room (1990) I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
Prix de la Jeunesse from Cannes + 17 awards
Passion: A Letter in 16mm (1985)
Rozema on Places and City (1
The Royal Bank Plaza. A modern cathedral, a marvel of sculpted form. It's windows have been coated with a small amount of gold leaf, it's different from every angle and yet it is unified. I'm sure lots of what goes on in there is less than holy but the structure can claim, I believe, a little bit of the divine.
Rozema on Places and City (2) As much as I try to give importance to "place" in this
article, it is the deeds that make a temple sacred or not. The halls, the streets, the condos and the palaces will always be filled with women, men, and children and their miseries, rebirths, half-dreams and dreams,shared love, wasted love, echoes and footsteps of the dead and half-dead, and sometimes brief, unbearably sweet smiles. It is all our pathetic little attempts at generosity, heroism and holiness that define us. In our fictions, as in our lives, it is the concrete steps towards or away from our ideals that say who and what we are.
Rozema :社會邊緣的藝術家
Zelda in White Room
Bach in “Six Gestures”
Anna in Passion
Polly in Mermaid
“. . . tiny hovel almost lost in the industrial section of Toronto (before it got groovy) under the enchanting shadow of a giant Kentucky Fried Chicken barrel with the CN tower in the BG”
藝術家的邊緣、多元空間
Petra’s in When Night is Falling
Zelda’s in White Room
女性藝術家的獨立多元空間 (1)
Passion: 家居空間、表演、放映空間
Mermaid: 家居、幻想、完成創作空間
女性藝術家的獨立多元空間 social institutions (2)
•Rozema on Polly’s hovel in Mermaid:
“And the heart of this place is her little red private developing room, her bathroom no less, where she slips into her reveries.
She goes to work at an art gallery pretentiously aspiring to the authority of spirituality (like this article perhaps?) with the name of ’The Church Gallery.’“ (source:
http://www.patriciarozema.com/a_place_in_the_sun.htm )
Rozema :女性藝術家空間 與男性、社會的入侵 White Room
Rozema 的批判觀點(1)女性與城市銷售結構
White Room 歌手的音樂錄影帶
Pinhole cameras everywhere
Rozema :女性藝術家與城市:幻想/飛行中的俯視/全景觀點(1)
飛行是 Rozema 常用的暗喻 “Desperanto” (《蒙特婁六重奏》)
女性藝術家與城市:幻想中的俯
視/全景觀點
Rozema :
2。幻想中的城市景觀
Rozema :女性藝術家與城市:加入式觀點 Polly 的觀點 1。攝影眾生百態
2。城市觀點 (影片) 欣賞、 與人互動
Rozema :﹙女性)藝術家與城市:加入式觀點--城市中的巴哈( Six Gestures )
1。多元觀點詮釋的巴哈 :•多位藝術家、
結構學家
群眾觀點:路人、塗鴉和司機的話
Some artists complete an era; some artists begin the next
The six suite was the first work that’s ever written for the cello.
Ya, but you know there’s no record of this cello suite’s ever having been performed.
Rozema 的批判觀點( 1 )危險的城市 (White Room)
1. 3.
2. 4. 充滿女生尖叫的城市全景
Rozema 的批判觀點( 2 ) : 高處不勝寒 (1) Passion 1. Flight 的影片需要 Power and Grace: 2. Anna as a filmmaker 獲獎;寒﹦ 高
度(﹦事業巔峰)的無力
Rozema 的批判觀點( 2 ) : 建築、高度與權力-- Six Gesture 中體制內的藝術家 ( Bach in Cöthen,
serving his patron,
Prince Leopold )• 不得已的自私?
– ( 妻子死時,不在身旁 )
Rozema :建築、高度與權力﹙2)以 Six Gesture 為例 與權力起舞 ( Bach and Prince Leopod
-- “our little polite and dutiful dances )
Rozema :﹙女性)藝術家與城市:建築、高度與權力﹙ 2 )
建/解構藝術家的權力
Rozema 的批判觀點( 2 )高處不勝寒 (2)
寒﹦滑翔翼 ﹦離開父系社會結構 暈眩
Rozema: 由暈眩到和諧的高處
其他空間暗喻:離開城市、窗簾分隔的內外
“In the Various Restaurants” Starting questions: How do we characterize Nicola, the narrator a
nd their relationship? (What does it mean to be “friends, but never close”? 153)
How are the other artists presented? Why are the restaurants important to the narr
ator? Does the fact that the author, Daniel Jones, la
ter commit suicide influence your reading of the novel?
Nicola and the narrator, 1983 –1992 “Not a Love Story”?
The narrator needs some clarification 145 Similarities: wary of long-term commitment
Aspiring writers switching from poetry to narratives. Nicola on her marriage 151 The Narrator: “The thought of close friends frightens
me.” (152) Do not speak when meeting on the street, no
kiss or touch when leaving each other, no photos, no talk on the phone, etc.
The narrator
The narrator: about to publish in 1983, Alcoholic, suicidal; keep careful records of the past, repeated
actions (“always” 143) Self-obsessed, but also Self-critical of his
attraction to Nicola. Feel distant from her at the moment of her
confession (149) Does not know what he wants 151
Nicola: a self-protective artist
her voice 141; in love with a man, or with the idea of
writing poems to him; Her story of nervous breakdown; 147-
48
The narrator’s view of Toronto
The two meet: “Always for lunch, in various restaurants.”
Only knows restaurants; 152 There are so many things to talk
about, . . . 153
Life and Art
The narrator’s wanting to write a story about Nicola. 150.
Collection of short stories by Daniel Jones: Obsessions: A Novel in Parts.