December 7 – 15, 2017 | Evenings, beginning at Sundown
South Wall of Herrick Chapel, Outside Academic Commons
Opening Reception: December 7, 5-8pm | Academic Commons Patio
Convergent histories, truth(s), imaginings and interrogations. Wanlass Artist in Residence Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle and students from ARTS290: Art Outside the Bounds collaborated with media artist Keith Skretch for the inaugural Ettinger Projected Poetry and Art Project: “New” World(s), which activates the south-facing wall of Herrick Chapel with video projection throughout reading days and finals of the fall 2017 semester. Students conducted research at Special Collections at Occidental College and amassed personal archives from prompts pertaining to personal narratives and images that haunted, challenged and provoked them. Students implemented interrupting the aesthetic of the didactic as a colonial tool of codifying. They also interviewed one another, and the residue of these questions and answers flicker in and out of the imagery. The context of the questions were formed by what roles we play within our family histories, how we absorb information as forms of truth and what does it mean to be an instrument of interruption, remixing, and restructuring narratives and historical and contemporary storytelling. Utilizing found imagery, objects and images from Herrick Chapel, these investigations weave in and out of one another, reminiscent of collage or a palimpsest of multiple interrogations and considerations of the truth.
The Ettinger Projected Poetry and Art Project is a public art project that infuses the written word and images into everyday moments around campus. Presented nightly for several hours during reading days and finals week each semester through spring 2020, the rotating exhibitions will project provocative and intellectual work on frequently viewed spaces on campus, inspiring deep collaborations between the arts and digital sciences and building pathways and partnerships that mirror our increasingly pluralistic world.
The Wanlass Artist in Residence is Occidental’s annual residency program that allows an artist to investigate aspects of their practice and share it with the College campus-wide. The program encourages cross-campus collaboration and thoughtful sustained interaction between artist and students.
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The Wanlass Artist in Residence Program is made possible by the generous support of the Kathryn Caine Wanlass Charitable Foundation.
The Ettinger Projected Poetry and Art Project is made possible by the generous support of Jane and Bob Ettinger.
