A Design Research on
Visual Identity Politics in an age of Cultural Diversity
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Products of Research

Teaching

This week in the Society of Spectacle

21c QuestionsGreil MarcusGuy DebordimagesLipstick Tracesracismresearch: tools & methodsSerena WilliamssexismSociety of the Spectaclestereotypeus open
Can Serena Williams escape the stereotype of the "Angry Black Woman"? ...

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Blackbook

Ultimate cheatsheet for Critical Thinking

cheatsheetCritical Thinking
Found on Facebook

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D

détournement

détournement’

The most wellknown strategy of the situationists was undoubtedly the principle of ‘détournement’ (or ‘distortion’ or ‘hijack’). Situationists considered it the duty of the activist to turn the forces of consumerism and the society of the spectacle against themselves.

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Re-mix

American Gothic Remix

African masksAfrican-AmericanAmerican DomesticAmerican flagAmerican Gothicartblack AmericanCarpenter Gothiccounter narrativeEldonElla WatsonFarm Security AdministrationGordon ParksGrant Woodiconicmidwesternobjets trouvésruralsegregationspiritualsteam ironUnited StatesWashingtonWillie Cole

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Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s Re-Mix 2018: I am Queen Mary

Black Panther Party for Self-defencecolonialismCopenhagenDenmarkHuey P. NewtonJeannette EhlersLa Vaughn BelleslaveryVirgin IslandsWest Indian
I Am Queen Mary by Danish artist Jeannette Ehlers and Virgin Islands artist La Vaughn Belle

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Identity politics

Individualism by Arnon Grunberg

Arnon GrunbergcollectivismDavid BrooksHanna Arendtidentity politicsindividualismMartin Sommer
Found in De Volkskrant

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Identity politics

Re-mix

I am a Man – Remix

BirminghamCivil Rights MovementDread ScottGlenn LigonHank Willis ThomasUnited States
Hank Willis Thomas, I Am A Man (2013)
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Research on Research

3 Types of Research within the domain of the arts

aestheticsart & design practiceartistic researchdebatedialogueexhibitionformshistorymaterialresearchresearch skillsrole of technologyuse of sources
3 types of research according to OBK 2017

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Reading stuff

Research in Art & Design: Sources & References

3 types of research - C. Frayling 1993/94

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D

Encyclopedia of —isms

Discours (or discursive)

critical theorydifferencediscoursdiscursiveMichel FoucaultNana Adusei-Pokupost-structuralismrepresentationStuart Hall
Slide from lecture "Visual culture, Identity and Design" by Nana Adusei-Poku on March 19, 2015

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Research on Research

3 types of research by Frayling

action researchartefactChristopher FraylingdocumentationtextUnited Kingdom
3 types of research - C. Frayling 1993/94

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Re-mix

Reading stuff

Teaching

Notes on ‘Boom, Boom, Boom for real’ by Dieter Buchhart

80sAndy WarholappropriationBasquiatCadavre Equisconcrete poetrycopy-and-pastecut-upDadaDieter BuchharteaseEye-rapHiphopimitationknowledgeNew YorkreproductionSamosamplingscratchingstrategystyleWilliam S Borroughs
BoomboomboomForRealpt2

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Identity politics

Mic’s Four Uniforms for Modern Racists

ChinoDickiesFred PerryMicpolo shirtrace & classrebrandedThe IdentitarianuniformsUnited Statesurbanworking classyoung

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Stereotypes

The Adorkable Misogyny

Back to the FutureDorkfilmhollywoodmisogynistNerdPop Culture DetectiverapecultureRevenge of the Nerdsrole of technologysitcomSixteen CandlesTelevision
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s Re-Mix 2017: Kendra Foster

Black Panther Party for Self-defenceFunkadelicGeorge ClintonHuey P. NewtonKendra FosterPedro Bellthe oneUncle Jam
Found on Facebook

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Stereotypes

The Mammy

The Mammy

Aunt Jemimabigblack womancantakerouscomicCoonfatfiercegood-for-nothing husbandgood-temperedHattie McDanielheadstronghousemaidindependencejollymaidmilitantpolitesubmissive

The Mammy is “so closely related to the comic coons that she is usually relegated to their ranks. Mammy is distinguished, however, by her sex and her fierce independence. She is usually big, fat, and cantankerous.
— Donald Bogle, 2001

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Stereotypes

Black stereotypes

Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s Re-Mix 2017: Patch & button Radical Dreams

Black Panther Party for Self-defencecelebrationHuey P. NewtonJacksonvillepatchpinradical dreamsShannon P
Patch found on radicaldreams.net

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Re-mix

Theft! A history of Music

appropriationcreative commonscultureDuke Universityfreegraphic novelJames BoyleJennifer JenkinslawreligionUnited States
Cover of Theft! A history of Music.

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1001 streams of blackness

Black as a political colour — Guilly Koster

#FokJou!blackestablishmentGuilly Kosteridentity politicsThe Netherlands

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Blackbook

Hema becomes genderneutral

Daphna JoelgendergenderneutralHemastereotypesThe Netherlands
De Volkskrant 20.09.2017 p2

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C

Encyclopedia of —isms

Cultural Appropriation

blackfacecolonisingcultureDulce SloanKenan MalikMaisha Z. JohnsonMickey MouseMileyMiley CyrusNew York TimesSusan ScafidiThe Daily ShowtheftTrevor NoahTwerking
Am I appropriating black culture with my Adidas?
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Blackbook

The return of the Guardian Angels

communityGuardian AngelsNew YorkUnited StatesVigilante
Source: Vice.com

1001 streams of whiteness

Becky

Stereotypes

Michael Harriot’s 5 Types of ‘Becky’

Amy Schumercultural appropriationfemaleHillary ClintonKim KardashianMichael HarriotMiley CyrusTaylor SwiftThe Rootwhiteness
The 5 types of Becky via theroot.com

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The construct of race

Baldwin’s Nigger — documentary, 1969

black experienceDick GregoryJames Baldwinracismslavery

Reading stuff

John Berger’s Ways of Seeing #4 (1972)

artconsumerismdesiresdreamglamourJohn BergermarxismMirroroil paintingPublicitysemioticsUnited KingdomWays of Seeing
Ways of Seeing (1972) by John Berger, BBC Four

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Research on Research

Imagination and knowledge

Albert Einsteinartimaginationinspirationintuitionknowledgewhy research is important
Found in fd.weekend that found it at the exhibition 'Intuition' at Biennale of Venice

Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s Re-Mix 2017: Mahogany Jones

Alexis AllonBlack Panther Party for Self-defenceCheD-CypheredDetroitDetroit Institute of ArtsEllie SandiegofemaleHip hopJenny RisherLakia NicoleMahogany JonesPiper CarterReddBone
Revolution Tribute, 2017. Hip-hop artists Mahogany Jones, Che, ReddBone, Alexis Allon, Ellie Sandiego, Piper Carter and Lakia Nicole. Photo © Jenny Risher.

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Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s remix 2017: Jay Z’s The Story of OJ

Black Panther Party for Self-defenceHiphopJay ZMark RomanekO.J. SimpsonRustam HasanovstereotypeUnited States
Screenshot taken at [2'10''] from "The Story of OJ" by Jay-Z and Mark Romanek

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Stereotypes

Jay Z’s (still) nigga

blackcannycreditFour WomenHiphopJay ZLittle Black SambomaleMammyMark RomanekNina SimoneOJ SimpsonpropertysavageSpectaclestereotypeUnited States
via Vevo.com

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Representation&Semiotics

John Berger’s Ways of Seeing #3 (1972)

anti-capitalismcolonisingHolbeinJohn BergermaterialisationownershippossessionpridepropertyRembrandtrepresentationsymbols of powertangibilityUnited KingdomVermeerWays of Seeing
Ways of Seeing #3 by John Berger

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Blackbook

“Western Flag” Installation by John Gerrard in Texas

activismartflagJohn GerrardTexasUnited Stateswestern
via StreetArtNews on Facebook

The construct of race

White privilege and racism – a social experiment by Jane Elliott

discriminationJane Elliottpower relationsracismsocial experimentsystemic racismUnited Stateswhite privilege
How do you Identify Racism_ The Angry Eye with Jane Elliott via YouTube

21C Mythologies

Institutional Racism

Products of Research

Philando Castile or ‘a broken home’

AJ+broken homeinstitutional racismPhilando Castilepolice brutalitySingle Black ParentUnited States

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Representation&Semiotics

John Berger’s Ways of Seeing #2 (1972)

artBBCbeing availableEuropean perspectiveeye of the beholdergenderJohn Bergermakedmale gazenudeobjectificationoil paintingpassivenesspowersexualsexualisingshamesubmissionUnited Kingdomwestern
Ways of Seeing #2 by John Berger

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Re-mix

Remix: Donald vs Grace

Donald TrumpGrace JonesJean Paul Goudeloudvisual rhyme

C

Encyclopedia of —isms

Cultural Diversity

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Encyclopedia of —isms

Q

Queer

Clare BarlowDerek JarmanLGBTTate MuseumUK

…“used to frighten me but now ‘for me to use the word queer is a liberation’’’
— Derek Jarman

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Black face, White wash

Stereotypes

Kim Kardashian’s ‘Black Face’

Black cultureblackfacecomplexcultural appropriationKim Kardashianpopculturetanned
Beckeisha

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Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s Re-Mix 2017: Chadwick Boseman

Black Panther Party for Self-defenceBlack PanthersChadwick BosemancomicDiana BuddsHuey P. Newtonlanguagelanguage of revolutionMarvelOaklandrevolutionsuperheroT'challaUnited StatesWakanda
Black Panther (2018) via www.imdb.com Poster design by Art Machine.

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E

Encyclopedia of —isms

Ethnicity

allochtoon vs autochtoonascribed identitydichotomous thinking or 'with us or against us'Dutch identityJacco van Sterkenburgnational identityorigin
Rotterdam in Cijfers (2015)
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B

Encyclopedia of —isms

‘Blank’ (a Dutch word)

cleaninstitutional racismpureskin colourwhiteness

means ‘pure’, ‘clean’, ‘fair’ ‘non-tainted’, ‘unwritten’ and ‘beautiful’.

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Representation&Semiotics

John Berger’s Ways of Seeing #1 (1972)

artauthenticitycameraCarravagiocontextEuropean perspectiveeye of the beholderfalse mysterygenderhabit and conventionimagesJohn BergerlanguageLeonardo Da Vincimaking meaningoil paintingoriginalphotographyrelicsituationWalter BenjaminWays of Seeing
Ways of Seeing by John Berger

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Race-ism

Alexandra Bell Uses Her Public Art to Expose Media Racism

activismAlexandra BellartBrooklyn (NY)graphic designMichael BrownNew York TimesUnited States
Bell, A Teenager With Promise, 2017. Image courtesy the artist

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I

Identity politics

Identity (construct of…)

AfrofuturismidentityinspirationMark DerymulticulturalismraceSamuel R. Delany

“Now part of what”…“I see as the problem is the idea of anybody’s having to fight the fragmentation and multicultural diversity of the world, not to mention outright oppression, by constructing something so rigid as an identity, an identity in which there has to be a fixed and immobile core, a core that is structured to hold inviolate such a complete biological fantasy as race— whether white or black”  —Samuel R. Delany, interviewed by Mark Dery, 1994

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Blackbook

The surprising pattern behind color names around the world – Vox

anthropologycategorycolourpattern
The surprising pattern behind color names around the world - Vox

Re-mix

Why cartoon characters wear gloves — Vox

blackfaceFelix the CatMickey Mouseminstreloriginpopculturevaudeville

Reversing the stereotype

‘Let’s Talk About Race’ by Chris Buck

Chris Buckethnicitygenderimage of womenwomen
fotoserie ‘Let’s Talk About Race’

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Encyclopedia of —isms

W

White fragility, supremacy, privilege

Cartoon: Sigmund by Peter de Wit, De volkskrant, 05.05.2017 p V23

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Encyclopedia of —isms

R

Race-ism

The construct of race

Racism (institutional, systemic, scientific)

'people'burgerschap/citizenshipCharles V. HamiltonCLR Jamescolorembedded into cultural DNAEric WilliamsethnicitygenealogyHans Spekmanhierarchyinstitutional racismInstitutionalized RacismInternalized RacismInterpersonal RacismJay SmoothMarokkanennationalitypowerraceRace ConversationRace Forwardscientific racismslaveryStokely CarmichaelStructural RacismsubcultureTa-Nehisi CoatesWildersZihni Özdil

…“race is the child of racism, not the father. And the naming of “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy.” 
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the world and me, 2015

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A

Encyclopedia of —isms

Archive (Cultural)

a concept of Edward Said which “foregrounds the centrality of imperialisme to Western culture. The cultural archive has influenced historical cultural configurations and current dominant and cherished self-representations and culture.”
—Gloria Wekker

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Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s Re-Mix 2017: Zinzi Minott

Black Panther Party for Self-defenceDanceLondonPerformanceraceSomerset House StudiosUnited KingdomZinzi Minott
Found on Twitter

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Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s Re-Mix 2017: Kamaiyah

Black Panther Party for Self-defenceHuey P. NewtonKamaiyahOaklandUnited States
Found on twitter.com

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1001 streams of whiteness

Rachel Dolezal 

a.k.a. Nkechi Amare Diallobox braidsidentityIjeoma OluoRachel Dolezalself-identificationThe Strangertransracialwhite privilege

“For a white woman […] to imagine herself into a real-life black identity without any lived black experience, to turn herself into a black history professor without a history degree, to place herself at the forefront of local black society that she had adopted less than a decade earlier, all while seeming to claim to do it better and more authentically than any black person who would dare challenge her—well, it’s the ultimate “you can be anything” success story of white America […] Another branch of manifest destiny. No wonder America couldn’t get enough of the Dolezal story.”
— Ijeoma Oluo

 

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1001 streams of whiteness

Nieuwe helden

cultural heritageMichiel de RoverThe NetherlandsValika SmeuldersWhite

“in een ander type samenleving, zou je dus met nieuwe helden moeten komen die andere functies hebben in de samenleving. Niet alleen ‘het veroveren’, maar ook ‘hoe leef je samen’.” 
—Valika Smeulders

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Products of Research

“Design is content with intent. Content without intent is noise. Intent without content is decoration.” —Joe Sparano

contentcriticismdesigndesign researchintentJoes SparanoUnited StatesWillem de Kooning Academy
Found in WdKA lookbook 2016-2017.

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Becky

Stereotypes

White people

Yeni López Sleidi and Em Gee’s “Authentic Caucasians” costumes

AfropunkBeckyclassismcultural ignoranceEm GeeHalloween costumesinnocencewhite privilegewhitenessYeni López Sleidi
© Yeni López Sleidi and Em Gee

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Identity politics

Reading stuff

BBC The Story Of Skinhead – Don Letts

Don LettsmulticulturalismpopcultureskaSkinheadTwo tone movementUKwhite supremacyworking classyouth
BBC The Story Of Skinhead - Don Letts

Blackbook

Sometimes a book isn’t just a book.

fearJohn Bergerlanguage of fearNew YorkremixRene MagritteterrorismUnited StatesWays of Seeing
After René Magritte. La Clef des songes (The Interpretation of Dreams). Brussels, 1935

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Huey's Re-Mix

Huey’s Re-Mix 2016: Beyoncé

BeyoncéBlack Panther Party for Self-defenceEast RutherfordFormationHuey P. NewtonJay ZKendrick LamarSerena WilliamsSuperbowlUnited States
Beyonce: Formation Worldtour 2016, https://maximequoilin.com © Daniela Vesco

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