Course Description

This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual of their choosing as a final project. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student.

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Self Portrait





My Identity

In this mini project, I want to see myself through external perspectives: Biologically who I am, where I've been, what people expected me to be, and who I was when I was young. 























1) Item one: passport (hierloom, artifacts)

The passport represent where I’ve been. It has a lot of stamps that I got from traveling. 


2) Item two: My health report (heirloom, artifacts)

My health status. I don’t even know what kind of shots I got in my body. The handwriting is unreadable, therefore when hospital trying to translate my old heath report from 20 years ago, they have no ideas what kind of medical shots I actually had. 


3) Item 3: my diary 


How I think when I was little. (and bad hand writing)
And how I THINK Now


4) Item 4: necklaces from my parents as my 18th birdie gift( Heirloom) 
It's a memory of entering Adulthood and expectations from a family of being a well posh lady. 

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