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"Poetry Is Not A Luxury:" Dis-Ing Self, Dis-Ing Archive, Ehm West
"Poetry Is Not A Luxury:" Dis-Ing Self, Dis-Ing Archive, Ehm West
Senior Projects Spring 2018
‘Poetry Is Not a Luxury:’ Dis-ing Self, Dis-sing Archive,” is divided into three separate interrogations of such rts institutions, archives, and constructions of identity. Each chapter explores how these related categories are challenged by curators, artists and artists’ respective styles or forms. My central focus investigates the use of paraficition and disidentification in Cheryl Dunye's work. In both her early video works and first feature-length film The Watermelon Woman, Cheryl Dunye investigates the complexity of her own Black lesbian identity and the constructedness of identity as a whole. She begins her practice as a moving image artist during a …
Black And Grey: An Audio-Visual Tribute To The Undefined, Jewel Evans
Black And Grey: An Audio-Visual Tribute To The Undefined, Jewel Evans
Senior Projects Spring 2018
The Process:
My project was originally called Seven Stages of “Griffe.” The term “griffe” was a racial category describing people who are three quarters black and one quarter white, which is my actual genetic makeup. My original plan was to analyze the history of the term and reference it in seven songs representing the seven stages of grief, and create a long music video to open up dialogue about the racial definitions we ascribe ourselves to. The project changed when I reached an impasse in my historical research, given that the term was obsolete by the 18th century and had …
Normal Couple Stuff, John Oglesby Whitescarver
Normal Couple Stuff, John Oglesby Whitescarver
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Some Brief Notes on Objects: Sculpture Empowers Objects to Show Us (people) New Ways of Relating
Jack Whitescarver
Objects have legs, torsos, extending arms, faces, surfaces, fronts, backs. These sculptures are not stand-ins for people. They are objects that follow the rules of how objects stand, sit, or hang in space. Rules work as the obstructions that focus energy into the act of forming. I’m interested in new ways of relating and I’m interested in how that relates to failure. Revolution on the state level is a movement that always fails at it is simply the replacement of one system …