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JR Ted Talk

Inside Out Project

Identity

Playing around with ways to represent identity...

Lucas Samaras

Self Portrait Boxes 

(reveal and conceal identity)

"the thoughts, feelings, intentions, ambitions that no one outside ever fully and surely knows of - and the outside, that aspect that faces the world, that is there to keep away the world from that hidden interior, to protect the secret life."

Micha Payer & Martin Gabriel

o.T. (pastell)

crayon and pencil on paper

2009

39" x  59"

“What is perceived and experienced inwardly forces its way out and there becomes crossed with the world, which already exists.” http://www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/portfolio.cfm

Dawoud Bey

Class Pictures juxtaposes photographs of high school students with texts they've written.  Bey asks his sitters to reveal something about themselves that people would not otherwise know.

"The construction of the self is an ongoing process, and these portraits inevitably remain mere fragments.  Their fragmentary nature is precisely what makes them so credible.  Bey quietly presents his photographic subjects with empathy and without reducing their complexity - something rarely achieved with images of teenagers, who are so often both looked at and overlooked."

http://www.dawoudbey.net/

Shirin Neshat

Buffalo Artist

Michael Basinski (American, born 1950). Spoken Landscape: A (The Text Departs the Temptation), 2010. Colored pens, markers, and found image shards on mat board, 16 X 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm).