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Visual Identity Politics in an age of Cultural Diversity
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Research on Research

Research & Time

Greil MarcusinspirationLipstick TracespopcultureresearchtimeUnited States

“Research makes time march forward, it makes time march backwards, and it also makes time stand still” — Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces p.18

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Research on Research

Blink Method, a research method for kids in primary school

21c QuestionsBlinkcreativityCuriosityiteration
Methode Blink (found in: newsletter OBS Het Landje)

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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

colonialismCopenhagenDenmarkHuey 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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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

FunkadelicGeorge 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

celebrationHuey 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 AllonCheD-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

HiphopJay 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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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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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

Handout made in collaboration with Teana Boston-Mammah and Jan van Heemst for the project on Cultural Diversity Q7/8 as part of the Social Practice of the Willem de Kooning Academy

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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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