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To Participate In The Image: Reification & Reproduction, Justine Xi
To Participate In The Image: Reification & Reproduction, Justine Xi
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
Spanning sculpture, video, and installation, I develop my work through techniques of collage and (re)appropriation to investigate and criticize Western hegemonic perceptions and representations of the (Asian) Other. I investigate perceptions of Asianness in the Western imagination from Orientalism to Techno-Orientalism, demonization and fetishization, focusing on the circulation of imagery in art, media, and popular culture. Further, I draw attention to the internalization of these standards and what it means to participate in the construction and distribution of the image, its implications and perceptions.
Other-Ing: Creating A Three-Dimensional Asian American Perspective, Caroline Yoo
Other-Ing: Creating A Three-Dimensional Asian American Perspective, Caroline Yoo
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
Through my thesis body of work “Other-ing,” my goal is to create a three-dimensional Asian American perspective. As a result of Western standards implemented as the norm, where colonialism is still prevalent and white still reigns supreme, the media has created an onslaught of fictional Asian characters to control this group. Representations, tropes, stereotypes have long shaped the Asian American community, so much so that it is often easier to understand these one-dimensional depictions rather than the complex reality of how an Asian American defines themselves. Not shying away from implicating myself in this systematic structure of racism, I become …