One performance that I was impressed with: I thought Olive's presentation was really interesting. Acting physically and/or mentally based on influencer culture is a phenomenon I've done and have observed others to do also, so I really enjoyed learning about her research of this as a common experience and the theory behind it. As brought up in class, I wonder if performing influencer culture is a new phenomenon, seen only amongst our generation, or if older generations have enacted similar embodiments of mass-culture in their physical and mental performances (supermodel culture, Hollywood culture, etc) One performance or presentation that taught me something new: I thought Adia's presentation about the various archives for black hair on youtube was really insightful and very cool in the way that these archives become a cultural and personal repertoire for her and other women. I wanted to increase my own knowledge and awareness of the stigmatization of black hair and fou...
Project ideas Archival performance: create a video that captures the different understandings of femininity that women and non-binary people in my life have taken on and grown out of at various points in their life. The idea is to showcase a series of maybe 5-7 different people's individual archives of femininity from their early-coming of age years until the present day. What I mean by archives of femininity is the ways in which people have understood, expressed, and performed their femininity over the course of several years (the earliest they can remember until now.) I'm picturing a 5-6 minute video that compiles a flash series of short videos/pictures of people acting out the different understandings and expressions of femininity they've gone through in order to show that femininity and womanhood aren't synonymous and that femininity can mean different things for different people at different times. This can be done in ways of the subjects choice, either through dr...