Monday, August 4, 2008

Visual Culture Project / Studio Work

...and so it begins [semester 1...otherwise known as S1].

The semester is split into two parts; research [visual culture project], which is doing research, annotations, and analysis and studio work which is not always but can be done in conjunction with the research.

My VC [visual culture project] is centered on the following question...
How has the feminist art movement [1960's-1990's] altered perceptions of power, identity, and gender?
Bibliography for the first mailing includes: Simone de Beauvior, The Second Sex; Broude, Norma & Mary Garrard, The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970's, History, and Impact; Catherine Belsey, Post-Structuralism: A Very Short Introduction.

My studio work will be centered on the following themes: victimization, reclaiming power, maintaining identity. I will be experiementing with video creation as part of my printmaking process. I may incorporate both into an installation work which explores issues relating to vicimization such as rape, and reclaiming ones identity.

2 comments:

phantompanther said...

not to say that it would be fun, but what if you did a print reflecting on the art in africa and how it does and doesn't affect the people there-- i.c- female genital mutilation-- and prostitution...just a thought, kinda off the subject I know but you would be the right person to attack such a subject and make it profoundly interesting and captivating. miss you so much--- sorry i never got a chance to go see you before you left-- I am the worst friend ever-- oh and I got my puppy!

Unknown said...

miss you too!!! ...can't wait to meet your new pooch!