Student Work: MA Program
NO SIDEWALKS IN BEL AIR
I closed my eyes– / jasmine wafting in the air– / and I summoned a picture of you.
THE CINEMATIC
A series of photographs that include cinematic elements, including lighting, format, composition, and creative methods.
TOWARD RELATIONAL MONSTERS
"Rather than waiting around for an apocalypse, how can the monster play as a queer reimagining of relations for carrying on together?"
Click, Play, Like, Follow
“What are the effects of the uninterrupted digital gaze on living, breathing humans in scroll culture?”
ANY / ANTI / SUPER / BODY
“If you could be any kind of body, what would that be and why?” The ten MA students in “Bodies at Work: Gender and Labor in Contemporary Visual Culture” share their responses.
The Shapeshifter
“When I am a little loud, or a little blunt, or a little messy, I can open a gate, and trespass into a world that is not readily given to me.”
This Body, My Body
“This body, that I inherited from my mother and her mother’s mothers is almost, but not exactly complete.”
Aura
“If you can’t erase the significance of color, erase color. / If you can’t erase the significance of the body, erase the body.”
If I Had to Say Today . . .
“Before, we were all instincts, hunting and touching, live and let die. No promises. But then people began to speak, and something went very wrong.”
Listen
“In my utopian alternative, society would be less concerned with aesthetics and more concerned with their auditory perceptions.”