ARTIST STATEMENT (particular to current MFA project) Do you dream of a utopia? What does it look like? My othered, diasporic life experience forces me to continually ask myself these questions and psychologically push myself towards imagined futures.
In Locations of Culture, Homi Bhabha defines three diasporic states of consciouness — backwards/homeland looking, boutique manifestation such as the model minority myth, and finally a liminal state from where we launch ourselves into our own self-determined futures.
I imagine us, in constant states of becoming with no hierarchy, and thus I orchestrate structures of visuality and materiality in such a way.
I move toward this future through the body, through the labor of making and experimenting with phenomenons of sentient being.
This process is framed in personal experience with club culture, ancestral culture and the dominant culture. It presents a hypothesis for a specific strategy: finding groove — the physical urge to dance to music as ritual to find our most human and sentient, unmediated selves and move us towards this future.
THREE TYPES OF PROJECTIONS -- Working towards creating a temporal arc
Projection I (underwhelming yet establishing rhythm)
Projection II (the artist wandering through a rave, 1996)
Viewing from distance
Projection III (dancer finding groove experiment)
For Time-based Presetation (the artist wandering through a rave).
SEQUENCE FILES (video split to three projectors)
Projection I file:
Projection II file:
Projection III file:
Projection IV -- (unresolved, incomplete) -- intention to lay down heavy four on the floor bass, and project syncopation
EARLY THROUGH MID-SEMESTER STUDIO PROCESS AND PROGRESSION
Still photos of projection work
Made many slit scans
Outdoor photography
