Some #100hardtruths on Images
“In a time where the promise of self-expression has been fundamentally realized only to be as quickly commodified, where our righteous images are easily ripped from their origins so that one person’s proof can become someone else’s opposing “truth,” curatorial projects supported by cultural institutions that ground our images and our acts of reception in carefully constructed contexts might be some of the best possible “good” holding environments, places that might enable us to remake ourselves as the informed, receptive, interactive, embodied citizens most worthy of making use of the history and current conditions of the social justice images in our midst.” (from #100hardtruth #27: new mage holding environments needed)
Contents of this path:
- #27: new image holding environments needed
- #31: look deeper into the migrant experience
- #34: place matters; re/flecting the border
- #37, size matters; we have to be minimalist
- #40, challenge the narrative of (African) American progress
- #42: phatic communication eases interactions but lessens information
- #44, black lives matter
- #46, stay aware, not afraid
- #69, ghosts can’t tell stories
- #70, reconnect the space that advertising has interrupted
- #71, cultural myths often lead to dominant ideologies
- #72, learn how to see Palestine
- #74, stay open to contradictions and power #offline
- #75, no time for fools
- #77, expose the costs and histories of freedom
- #83, focus attention on the real-world applications of #fakenews
- #85, make productive fake documentaries
- #86: resist how we are framed
- #91, we need the NEA and NEH to know how to imagine ourselves as a nation
- #94, always look for the real thing