Alivia Allers

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...

With about 1.5 million followers, including some notable celebrities, o ne of my favorite digital archives is an instagram account called  VelvetCoke . The main purpose of the account is to highlight various aspects of pop-culture in different time periods such as fashion, photography, cinema, sports, and celebrity moments. I consider the account to be an archive because it has a collection of over 2,000 posts about various aspects of visual culture that span across several different decades, and because the creator rarely ever posts anything from the current year. I follow the account because I personally enjoy learning about pop-culture more when it's in the context of the past, compared to the pop-culture of 'my generation.' Particularly right now I'm interested in fashion and supermodel culture of the 1990's, so following an archival account such as VelvetCoke is great for that. I interact with the account by saving photos that I'd like to use as inspiration...