Its Not Just That Im A Freshman But That Im Scared

Who would expect I'd have to make a tumblr for a cornell college class

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Does anyone want some pins?!!?!?!?! I’m selling these on my Depop, but if you have Venmo you can buy them for a discounted price! Please dm me if interested!

My Depop is galileovevo

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It’s World AIDS Day. Fuck Bush.

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Remember today when you see 100+ articles about how ‘civil’ and ‘noble’ H.W. Bush was that today is World AIDS Day. That 100,000 people, many LGBT+ individuals, especially gay men, died under his and Reagan’s watch. That he banned HIV+ people from entering the US, reduced research funding, and prevented educators from speaking about safe sex in favor of abstinence only education.

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“Money is not a thing, it is a social relation.”

— Marx - Poverty of Philosophy 1847

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu12tN8AJdU)

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Paul Pfeiffer

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Ana Mendieta, Untitled (from the Silueta series), 1973-1977

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Mendieta has never had a problem with doing things that might freak people out at times.  This is one of those pieces that would make many peoples’ skins crawl.  She has blood running down her face and into her mouth and over her eyes, causing both discomforts of having something, a liquid, on one’s face and eyes, and the repulsion of having it in her mouth as well, and all of this being compounded with the fact that it is blood!

This piece relates back to her roots in Cuba where the practice of Santeria is done, often using blood in the rituals.  She did a performance art piece around that earlier in the year, and this seems to be a reflection of that in a way.  This is also another embodiment of the crossing of femininity and embracing blood as feminine and again unsexualized, much as that was very non-traditional in intent.

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This is Mendieta’s art piece referencing the violent rape and murder of a nursing student at University of Iowa.  She would tell fellow students (all male) to go to different locations on campus, such as her dorm room, where they would find her nude below the waist and smeared in blood, and tied to a table.  With this piece, it is a shocking and horrifying thing she is referencing, and it forces the viewers into a very uncomfortable and even painful position to see her embodying the awful event on their campus.  Mendieta does not shy away from her intentions to bring the taboo and distressing to the forefront of her works.

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This piece, titled Heart of Rock with Blood, is part of her oft-referenced Silueta series.  She began this series by placing her physical self in natural scenes–such as The Tree of Life, in which she is covered in mud and against a tree–but later makes pieces like the one above, where her form is there, but she is absent.  This was one of the ways that she commented on women’s place in society and in the art world: women were both present while simultaneously removed.  So here, while the female figure is the subject matter, Mendieta has also removed herself from the male gaze and general societal view of her art.

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White Walls Are Not As Neutral As I Thought

I never thought about the significance of white as a neutral color to be used in galleries, but the group conversation about it raised some really good points that I can’t not think about now when I see white wall galleries. The white wall background is actual inherently racist, linking to white supremacist ideals that whiteness equals purity. AN example which is similar to the white walls is old Kodak film which is specifically made t correctly show the shadow on a white skinned person, thus is inherently racist as it does not work the same for someone with a darker skin tone. 

This leaves the question of how can we as new age artists adjust these white wall galleries and museums to erase the old racist philosophy behind the “ neutrality” of the white wall? As a white-skinned person I don't stand in a position to answer this question. The only thing I can do is listen to those who haven't had voices in the past and help to change this philosophy around to create a truly neutral gallery setting created by a diverse array of opinion. 

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Yamini Nayar //What’s Essential // 2005

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Yamini Nayar

During this seminar, Yamini Nayar discussed her work in comparison the Freudian psychological theory and psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud’s psychological theory bases largely on memory and childhood influence. In Sigmund Freud’s “The Uncanny,” discusses the theory that to experience a situation as “uncanny” it would have to be brought back by a feeling of repressed emotion, such as anxiety, from a past event such as a traumatic childhood event. A sense of dread mixed with a familiarity to such emotion would be his view of what the uncanny would be. Freudian psychology includes other theories based on old memories: “screen memory” is the word he uses for his theory that we use screen memories to cover up other traumatic memories from our past, so the human brain unconsciously blocks out traumatic memories and replaces them with these other screen memories. The term Freudian slip was coined as another term for parapraxis, which is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a faulty act (as a slip of the tongue or of memory).”

Yamini Nayar, is an American-Indian artist based in Brooklyn, NY, who works in photography, sculpture, and the “language of architecture” as according to her web page. Her art is partly inspired by Freudian psychological theory and discusses the fact that the experiences we know are partly memory as well as a mix of narrative which the mind unconsciously creates. In her artistic practice, she creates sculptural and architectural pieces which she takes apart after she photographs the work. Thus, nothing is left but the image of what it was, which gives her both the memory and the narrative, but gives the audience to her pieces nothing but the narrative aspect of the piece through the image.

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freud

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