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.

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Self-Portrait

 
Heirloom: My dress form Marie that my aunt gave me when I was accepted to Parsons.

 
Heirloom: The guitar on the left was a graduation present from my uncle and the guitar on the right was a Christmas present from my father when I was around 7 years old.

 
Artifact: This is a crown made for a photoshoot from the skeleton of a deer that my friends and I found a cleaned.

Heirloom: My grandmother's blazer.

Heirloom: My maternal great-grandmother's pin.

Heirloom: My mom gave me the table and chairs she bought when she got her first house.

Artifact: My mom designed these shelves and my dad built them when they moved into my childhood home.

Evidence: My best friend would go to England once a year with her father who is a rare book dealer. She would buy little knick-knacks for all of her friends in elementary school.

Evidence: My bedroom walls are covered in my art, posters, art I've purchased, found or been gifted, and photos.

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