Performance artist Marina Abramovic’s retrospective collection, “The Artist is Present,” debuted in March 2010 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Comprised of over fifty pieces of her work from the last forty years, the exhibition calls attention to the divide between artist and audience, observer and participant, and repetition and stillness. Using the human body as a medium, … [Read more...] about The Empty Chair: Looking into the Eyes of Marina Abramovic
Archives for 2011
New Contest Requirements
For all those who have been bogged down in the past few weeks by those pesky midterms and course papers and were prevented from taking part in our logo design contest, you are in luck! The editors of Scribe have decided to extend the logo contest deadline to November 10th. This new time parameter for the contest brings with it new design requirements. Please submit as … [Read more...] about New Contest Requirements
Accountability on the High Seas: Royal Caribbean and Labor Rights Abuses
A 2008 Royal Caribbean commercial dares the consumer to “cast off conventions of life on land and set sail, free to ask, ‘Why not?’ Why not ice skate on the equator? Sunbathe past glaciers? Climb mountains at sea? […] Or do nothing at all?” Royal Caribbean’s ships are like giant playgrounds at sea for adults and children alike. As the commercial proudly points out, … [Read more...] about Accountability on the High Seas: Royal Caribbean and Labor Rights Abuses
Contest Info
The editors of Scribe are searching for a captivating, new logo to grace the pages of its online student-operated literary journal. What are the guidelines, you ask? Only that the new logo is able to visually capture the spirit and energy of our vibrant campus and dynamic city. The contest is open to all USC students to stretch their artistic muscles, earn some serious kudos as … [Read more...] about Contest Info
Acupuncture: Superstition to Science
There is a story in China about a peasant who worked as a maintenance man in a newly established Western hospital. When he retired, he took some hypodermic needles and antibiotics with him to his village. People came to him when they had ailments and he would inject them with the drugs he had procured. Although this peasant had no knowledge of Western medicine or how to … [Read more...] about Acupuncture: Superstition to Science