Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.Jean Cocteau (via Weekend Words: Value)
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You cannot use a brand new word in an old language because of the very obvious yet mysterious fact that a word is not a single and separate entity, but part of other words. It is not a word indeed until it is part of a sentence. Words belong to each other…Virginia Woolf on craftsmanship and words, in the only surviving recording of the author’s voice. (via explore-blog)
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Fun article in Scientific American. This magazine should develop accompanying lesson plans. There are a lot of great articles in here that approach science in a contextual and inquiry-based manner that would hook kids (back) into the sciences. Also, I’m considering getting a dual credential so that I can teach science — more specifically, the history of science and America’s medical explorations/exploits. I always loved science and it would be fun to teach the reproductive system alongside lessons around the medical experiments in early America that gave us this wealth of knowledge — see “Medical Apartheid”.
My students and I figured out a way to make experimental movies using the leftover printer film from the selphy printers, a black box, a flashlight, and a pulley system!
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Quilted self-portraits.
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Editing. Shot stills for Nikyatu Jusu’s web series, “Suicide by Sunlight”. More to come soon.
Natural History Museum — my favorite dinosaur from childhood, the Stegosaurus. My elementary school years were spent classifying dinosaurs and their varying diets.
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At the Brooklyn Museum last week, students created mirror sculptures and photographed themselves within these sculptures to create self-portraits that mimicked the geometric repetition found in the quilts from the ”Workt by Hand” exhibit at Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on the 4th Floor of the museum.
Today, students are revisiting the quilts as they create intricate geometric collages that make use of original photography and found photography. We are looking at how fragments can be manipulated to create the whole. They will pick a quilt whose geometric pattern will guide their portrait collage.
Ever growing collection of portals.
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New acquisitions from eBay seller in New Haven.
Curating + Other Updates
I almost never post anything “personal” in this space and in most cases, I announce events when they’ve arrived, rather than sharing while still in the nascent stages. This morning, I was in the sharing spirit.
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Last week, I got the green light to curate an exhibit around gender presentation and women’s bodies for a museum whose potential and current work I value. As much as I enjoy the rigor of creating my own work, I deeply enjoy diving into the work of others and creating a narrative between seemingly disparate bodies of work. It’s problem solving at its best. How do you create and/or reveal an aesthetic and conceptual connectivity between works while making innovative use of spatial environments to further articulate this relationship? Two parts horrified and 1 part invigorated, I am really looking forward to realizing this work by winter 2014.
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In about 3.5 weeks, my girl Joyce and I will be unleashing the event we’ve spent the last few months curating. It is an experimental space that integrates some music, a panel, and artist exhibition at the Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Basically, it is an awesome night of Black women archivists and artists exploring rituals of preservation, documentation, and creation while opening up portals for new opportunities. Advertising and ticket reservations begin at the end of the week!
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On Thursday, received news about being awarded a fellowship that will allow me to really get my hands dirty with community arts and collaborative relationships. Excited about these possibilities which can hopefully give me tools and space to do some transatlantic work.
Three years ago, when BP’s Deepwater Horizon began leaking some 210 million gallons of Louisiana Crude into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. government allowed the company to apply chemical “dispersants” to the blossoming oil slick to prevent toxic gunk from reaching the fragile bays, beaches, and mangroves of the coast, where so much marine life originates. But a number of recent studies show that BP and the feds may have made a huge mistake, for which everything from microscopic organisms to bottlenose dolphins are now paying the highest price.
How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.Kurt Tucholsky (via flaneur-)
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