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Camera Perspicuous

performance 3:
​Travel Diaries (InGrave)


Above: SLIDE SHOW of stills from "InGrave," the 3rd Performance of Camera Perspicous.


This performance amplifies the themes of the ongoing installation. The structure of the room itself is a portal through which observations of exoticism and difference are translated into personal narrations of displacement, alienation, and adjustment. 

The words of notable[1] historical and contemporary ethnographers discussing “otherness” are imprinted onto one wall (a video of them being typed). Beyond this screen one hears excerpts from interviews I conducted with immigrants who explore the nuances of being strange, external, and outside simple categorization.[2] Threads pass through the “camera” and are eventually drawn back in & inscribed on the clay floor.


[1] Bronislaw Malinowski, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Zora Neal-Herston, Renato Rosaldo, & Paul Stoller.
[2] Tal Rappaport, Lai Lai Chu, Aprilianto Sundandayo, Fabrice Payet, Parisa Ghaderi, and Reem Gibriel

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