Cultural Blind Spots

 

Somewhere every culture has an imaginary zone for what it excludes, and it is that zone we must try to remember today.

Helene Cixous & Catherine Clement

 
 

Does your work bring to light a zone of exclusion or a blind spot in our culture?

 

Project

This project invites a simple action of improvisation. The emphasis is not so much on fabrication as on the idea of the experience. Within 24 hours and with $15 worth of materials, create a mini exhibit of your own work in which you reveal this apparent blind spot.

Include a simple chart that offers a creative structure for seeing the content and form of this exhibit.

 
 
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Did this exhibit allow you to rethink the words you use to describe your work and/or to see your work in a new context?

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