Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture Number 5 Collecting, Archiving, Publishing Article 17 November 2015 Framing Madame B: Quotation and Indistinction in Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Video Installation Dorota Filipczak University of Łódź Follow this and additional works at: https://digijournals.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters Recommended Citation Filipczak, Dorota. "Framing Madame B: Quotation and Indistinction in Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Video Installation." Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, no.5, 2020, pp. 231-244, doi:10.1515/texmat-2015-0017 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts & Humanities Journals at University of Lodz Research Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture by an authorized editor of University of Lodz Research Online. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Text Matters, Volume 5, Number 5, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2015-0017 Dorota Filipczak University of Łódź Framing Madame B: Quotation and Indistinction in Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Video Installation A BSTR A CT The article engages with the video installation Madame B by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker. The work was premiered in the city of Łódź in Poland (between 6 Dec. 2013 and 9 Feb. 2014). The author makes use of the exhibition brochure by two artists published by the Museum of Modern Art, and the recording of a seminar held by Bal and Williams Gamaker after launching their work. The article focuses on the innovative audiovisual interpretation of Flaubert’s famous novel.