ABSTRACT
Subjects organize their sense of being through time and space. Time and space are a complex weave of public impositions, socially instituted affects and representations, and an imaginary, shaped by its own unconscious rhythms. … of a worm in a pomegranate explores the ways in which subjects internalize, cohabitate with, and creatively experience institutional time and space in an attempt to negotiate agency. In one continuous video capture, light at dusk passes from one interior wall to another. This image provides the visual component of a nonsequential narrative that calls upon topics ranging from phantom limb phenomena to global warming. Video stills from ‘…of a worm in a pomegranate’ by Susan Jahoda https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003421795/49a8d813-b939-4949-a7d7-299514d8dcb0/content/fig_500.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003421795/49a8d813-b939-4949-a7d7-299514d8dcb0/content/fig_501.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
Susan Jahoda is an interdisciplinary artist, art co-editor for Rethinking Marxism, and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her work includes photography, performance, installation, and video. She has been the recipient of grants and awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her work has been exhibited and published widely in Europe and North America. Current projects in video and sound explore how subjects can make claims for psychic and social belonging, in a location between time and space as constituted in and by the body, and time and space as situated in the world.
