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University Art Gallery, A Terrible Name in Terms of Understanding What It Is

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        On the surface, everybody knows there is a discrimination chain of all majors in UCSD. In short humanity majors seemed to be looked upon by STEM majors. People are thinking Communication majors are so easy to get a degree, without much workload. Thus it seemingly follows logically that our departments do not deserve much funds and resources, and the reality follows exactly the same way. It is fairly obvious that all engineering buildings at Warren are built much fancier than Communication, Literature or Economics departments that are bald as lecture halls. No need to say that for sure engineering departments enjoy more advanced equipments and events on the inside. However, art and culture are no less important than science for human development. Especially as a public University, there ought not be bias between these two domains of academia. It is reasonable to enjoy a strength in engineering field, but there is no excuse for not encouraging, or even devaluating art and humanity society.

        I chose to do a documentary on the 2016 student activism against closure of University Art Gallery, mainly for both a regret to the still unfunded institution and a wish to boom future efforts in guarding it. In relation to their particular locations, which are on the campus of high educational institutions, University galleries and museums specifically enjoy “the freedom to break new ground with new and unfamiliar subjects, artistic genres, and experimental interpretive approaches”, “as an activist institution that opens up new research protocols and opportunities for global collaboration” (Chin Davidson, J. (Ed.), Esslinger, S. (Ed.). (July 2017), "Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum", p12-13). On one hand, as an open resources for students, it is a platform for bold experiments without a need to worry much about social judgement, thus granting next generation opportunities to innovate. On the other hand, because universities are concrete forum for academic communication, ideas exhibited at University galleries get to be seriously and more widely disseminated. While the UC system on a whole has been increasing supporting university museums, UCSD has not only payed little attention to its nominally small galley, which doesn't even have a meaningful name, but even attempted to shut it down. This fact is deeply disappointing. Thus it is essential to keep UAG, because both a balance between culture and science needs to be maintain at UCSD, and that itself represents a larger social significance to shaping human culture development.



      I interviewed people who were the main force in the activism in 2016, and current Visual Arts undergraduate students at UCSD. Despite that most of my interviewers were out of my area, I found it also unique to incorporate Skype frames into my documentary. The form of video call draws a clear awareness of people talking to you on the other side of a screen. To my target viewers, who should be people on or near UCSD campus, the distance hence created reminded audience of a difference between identities: the speakers were those who already took action in the past, and now too far away from UCSD to make further efforts; us viewers are much closer to where UAG stands, and carry the possibility to continue making contributions. The only one current student representative, whose interview was shot traditionally, also complimentarily relates to viewers.

      My last shot in the video is a time line carved on the ground in front of UAG's entrance. My shot stopped at the year of 2016, because in reality the last number on there was 2016. Officially there was no funding after that year, and after the end of 2018 school year, it is still nebulous for UAG's future plan. My interviewer subject mentioned that there is no record of their activism on University Art Gallery's online archive. I chose to end my documentary with this irony, in an attempt to raise curiosity and critique of how UCSD seems to be avoiding the issue.



        The Aura of this documentary is just located at University Art Gallery entrance. The trigger image is the last year curved on the ground, 2016. It is not only the year in which the student activism took place, but also the last year UAG enjoyed its name a professional art gallery that's funded by the school.


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