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RACIAL GAZES 

PROJECT
AUT
2021


Racial Gazes is a mini-series of works apart of The Handbook project, consisting of tricolour film image. Each work is made out of recycled assignments, research, test prints, and guidelines of the past three years (my undergraduate). The pages are made through the pulp paper process, in which I rip up these document, blend it, and mix into a bath of water. These pages consist of essentially a mesh of any evidence of my academic years. what exists on these pages are images that were made with a black and white film, which have gone through the tricolour process. This was an exploration in mechanisms of slowness, in order to re-experience the racialised events that occurred in these spaces with a deeper connection to my "black consciousness"; in making and in healing.

Overall, I'm particularly interested in the relationship that exists in the "assignmentising" of experiences and the ways in which "the studio culture" impacts the making of work; and the potential reality for that work to become racialised.

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Slowness - can be broken down of ways in which I purposefully slow down a particular process and work through mindfulness strategies, for internal balance and clarity.

Racialised events - encompass the spectrum of microaggressions to microaggressions, race in regards to my identity becomes questioned and critiqued and not the ideas of race as a concept.

Black consciousness - is discussed by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, in how black experiences are not singular they transform into a holistic consciousness. This an everyday paradigm that is moulded by the community and their intersectional experiences. 

Assignmentising - is the way in which we take a particular idea, narrative, experience, or concept and mould it into the criteria, languages and taught behaviours of an academic assignment.

Studio Culture - is the social and cultural behaviours that exist in the arts education environment.

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