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Blog 6: brainstorm

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 dressing up in certain clothes, wearing certain makeup or hairstyles, and/or incorporating different audio, graphics, or descriptive images (landscapes, colors, items) that can help tell a chronological story of their personal archived history of femininity..? Not sure if this counts as a personal archive. 

Archival performance: take language from a series of popular memes that have spread in the US and combine the texts to create some sort of cultural statement about the role of memes in society. 

Topical essay: discuss how performing the fear of Covid, or performing a lack of fear of Covid, has in many ways also become a way for people to simultaneously more actively perform their socio-political identities. discuss how the political climate in the US greatly contributed to the ways fear has been performed





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