Drawing inspiration from John Cage's, Notations, Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. These spectacularly beautiful and fascinatingly creative visual piec…
This thesis explores what it means for the Palestinian indigenous minority in Israel to produce art in a setting that has simultaneously controlled their movements and excluded them from full citizenship. It takes on the question of how Palestinian artists face discrimination wi…
The current cultural climate is stimulating an increasing interest in, and need for, collaboration throughout many fields of practice. Collaborative methods of art production are evident across a range of contemporary visual art practices and opportunities for interdisciplinary …
Areyto de liberación is a ceremony of liberation. A space for encountering old wounds, sitting with them and, experience healing. This areyto is for people whose ancestry comes from Taíno lands. It’s a self-rediscovery process to decolonize my spirituality, and experience healin…
My thesis artworks focus on interconnection and on the Western cultural perception of a separation between humans and nature. This perception developed during the nineteenth-century Westward Expansion, which viewed nature as a source of resources to be utilized and tamed. Within…
Archipelagic Memory examines US Filipino cultural productions–including poetry, documentary film, fiction, and museum curation–and narratives of Filipino belonging outside the imperial archive of US-Philippine relations. Through my close-readings of Marlon Fuentes’ film Bontoc E…
