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Break Pot: Benefit St., Liberal Arts Division, Risd President, Center For Social Equity + Inclusion, Risd Museum
Break Pot: Benefit St., Liberal Arts Division, Risd President, Center For Social Equity + Inclusion, Risd Museum
Global Arts + Cultures (GAC) Lectures
Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 1 pm in the RISD Museum Upper Farago Gallery. Amy Lee Sanford, a Cambodian-American artist with an international reputation, participates in the RISD Museum’s exhibition “Repair and Design Futures” through a powerful, one-afternoon performance of a gallery installation entitled Break Pot: Benefit St., a shortened version of the six day durational performance called Full Circle.
Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and raised in the United States, Amy Lee Sanford holds a degree from Brown University in the Visual Arts. Her work references the deep personal significance of family separation, cultural destruction and death …
Anachropomorphism!, Carson Evans
Anachropomorphism!, Carson Evans
Masters Theses
Folks, the Truth is hard to know—if can be known at all.¹ Conventional Western wisdom tells us: stick to the facts. (I’m looking at you, Enlightenment.) We privilege the written word as an objective and reliable vehicle for communication. Useful, yes, but we over-rely. I counter with this: bodily performativity and purposeful inaccuracy that produces, paradoxically, narrative accuracy. These methods roil in our gut or tug at our heartstrings—instead of recoiling, we should embrace them.
I like to unpack “the stories we tell ourselves,”² our personal and societal mythologies, with a particular eye to how the past plays a role …