Brilliant discussion quotes about film and representation from Urban Gateways’ Summer Option students from last year:
“As long as authority has been around the oppositional gaze has been around” Sam
“We shouldn’t be trapped in stereotypes” Jesse
“If they failed there wouldn’t be any alternative visions and dreams” Jesse
“In order to do that she had to use her body as an example” Sam
“Using the past/power synonymously” Chris, Jordan
Check out: Drive-by Cinema an interactive public cinema project that I’m currently a part of!
Please take a look at Urban Gateways’ summer 2012 documentary and Michael Coleman’s final film.
<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/46501982″>CherrieNeshat (actuallyfresh)</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user4318612″>michael coleman</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Urban Gateway’s Summer Options’ 2012 has started! We’ve started a blog to collect our writing, poems and projects. Please take a look here!
Lizzie’s poem modeled after Dahlia Ravikovitch’s poem “Magic”
I’ve started a new residency at Palm Middle School. I’ll be maintaining a site where a few of their wonderful poems will be available. Please take a look at their first poem here!
Here is the documentary that Oli and I worked on, with the help of Kadeem and Calvin!
I just wanted to share with you my student Gerry Duran‘s appropriation/critique of Santiago Sierra’s 250 Cm line tattooed on 6 paid people.
This is a piece that I have personally been thinking about and writing on… and after discussing Sierra’s work in class… Gerry came up with a brilliant response/opposition to Sierra’s work.
Please look at his piece here… and let us know what you think!
Artist Oliverio Rodriguez and I will be co-teaching UG’s 3rd Summer Option at SAIC this July.
Our 14 students will be blogging daily here throughout the month of July so that we can maintain open and critical discussions about our film/writing/artists projects.
Some of the artists that the students will engage in this summer will be:
Martha Rosler, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Shirin Neshat, Martha Rosler, Doris Salcedo, Andrea Smith, Mark Bradford, Coco Fusco, Suheir Hammad, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marina Abromavich–to name a few!
The student film screening date will be: July 29th at 7:30 at Columbus Drive. See you there!
