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Black Lives Matter

Inside Out: The People’s Art Project

Embodied Knowledges deals with ideas of how we show our presence in a place.  For Marina Abramović and Fred Wilson, their presence was marked simply by being in the room with their audience rather than by any particular action.  Inside Out is a project by French artist JR, who takes portraits of people from around …

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Silent Sam

Class discussion surrounding the spatial politics of monuments referenced a statue on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus, which immediately made me think of the recent protests surrounding Silent Sam. Silent Sam is a bronze statue of a confederate soldier on the upper quad of UNC’s campus that was dedicated in 1913 by Robert Carr, during a ceremony …

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Commercial Spectacle & Public Art

Why I can’t take any commentary on Beyonce’s Super Bowl Halftime performance serious…on either side. Pedro Lasch states early in the first lecture that “public art has always been a great way to understand entire societies. It’s through our definition of the public that we define the relations between the visible, the invisible, the national and …

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