Ginkgo Trees as Memory Keepers
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prop·er
prop·er
/ˈpräpər/
adjective
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truly what something is said or regarded to be; genuine
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of the required type; suitable or appropriate.
My mother used to make me copy down sections of the dictionary when I told a lie. She said that writing down each line exactly, taking down honestly what the page said, would teach me what it meant to be straight with people. To be a proper young lady. To sit up right. To keep your feet on the floor. To not make obvious your discontent. More...
twa fwa
twa fwa is a durational study attempting to capture the complex delivery and meaning of cross-cultural Black expression. The onomatopoeic word in Haitian Kreyòl is "twipe" (in English, known as sucking one's teeth) and runs a spectrum of meaning, from distain and disregard to a genial scoff or the beginning of a punchline.
BONBON COCHON
BONBON COCHON augments the ways that humans have perceived pigs as unaware of their environment from a geo-political and consumption perspective, but also in some ways reckless, sloppy eaters and filthy animals. Using research into modern and and historical pigs’ diets, these fully edible objects celebrate both the history of pigs as a global citizen, participating in exchange in the form of commerce and cultural influence, and their discerning palette.
Black Bags
Shoals
This collection of visual meditations is inspired by The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies, in which author Tiffany Lesobo King describes the (im)material influence of Black and Native experiences on Turtle Island. How both thought, culture and relationship to place were upset and tumbled, strengthen and continues to reform as descendants navigate the legacies of colonization and present state of capitalism.
King describes this with the metaphor of shoals, shifting semi-liquid/semi-solid compositions of sand, rock, biomater and water. Shoals present a danger to the certain trajectory of heavy hulled, determined ships, while providing a safe enclave to the some of the most fragile living matter.
The nature of shoals is one of consistent movement, responsivity, but also character. We see the ripple of the surface’s water and can anticipate where we might see the strengthening of consensus under tow.
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KORGI
This project built music from gait rhythms of quadrupeds (running animals) using iKaossilator by KORG.
Homage to Self Determination
Homage to Self Determination is a meditation on the history of Weeksville in Brooklyn, New York. This freedman community prioritized land ownership as a core point to enable voting access for Black Americans in the US. Beyond land ownership and its direct seeding of agency in American political systems, Weeksville became a bastion of self-determination for Black people in the US: operating schools, churchs, abolitionist groups, one of the oldest Black American newspapers including the Freedman's Torchlight, and was HQ for the Back to Africa Movement
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