IN//APPROPRIATE

An Excavation of Appropriation: visuals and voicemails digging into what artists and the public think about cultural appropriation. Show opens July 8th at 5pm in the Littman Gallery at Portland State University, Portland, OR.

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July 22, 11:02 pm: “The gaping wound of colonialism is this notion that nothing is connected to anything else...”

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July 24, 12:51 pm: “Yoga.”

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You Can Do Anything But – Black: Elvis Presley, 1958. Red: Memphis Police, 1964.

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Sweet Dreams – Black: Katy Perry, 2014. Red: US soldiers, Pacific, 1945; Nagasaki Atom Cloud, 1945

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The Sun Never Sets – Black: Iggy Azalea, 2013; Red: Empress Victoria of India, 1887,

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July 1, 10:46 am: “I was ignorant about the speed at which things are appropriated here...”

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June 22, 6:44 pm: “I would compare it to the Pendleton blanket designs...”

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June 22, 4:19 pm: “If it’s not praise then it’s thievery...”

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Is Ferguson in America? - Black: Miley Cyrus, 2014; Taylor Swift, 2015. Red: Police line, Ferguson, Missouri, 2015.

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June 17, 7:27 pm: “Culture is the set of customs, attitudes, beliefs, etcetera that distinguish one people from another...”

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June 17, 9:14 am: “I don’t know if that means moving black people out, or the mingling of people, diverse cultures and ideas...”

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June 11, 5:30 pm: “I used to have dreadlocks, like many other counter-cultural or anarchist or punk or hippie types...”

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Go West – Black: Random Coachella attendee, 2014. Red: Bison skull pile, South Dakota, 1870's.

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June 6, 7:10 am: “Herbie Hancock cited some European classical composers as some of his primary influences...”

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June 1 1:38 pm: “It’s a terrible thing, that’s all...”

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June 1, 8:28 pm: “We have to think about that history...”

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May 31, 4:38 pm: “Trying to pass those songs off as their own songs, or steal other things that black people have been known for...”