Quotes From The Art of Activism, Chapter 2
1. "Nothing comes from nowhere. Whenever 'new' forms of music emerge, upon closer listening they are soon found to be new combinations of preexisting music. Rock 'n' roll, for instance, came from combining elements of Black blues, jazz, and gospel with white country and western-swing genres."
2. "In this phase we are the dedicated friend, the loyal soldier, the trusted partner, or the 'fixer' who does the job, no questions asked, with no supervision needed. We just do it."
3. "When we operate solely from our own experiences, interests, perspectives, and comforts, we miss a lot. It takes self-awareness and humility to admit that we don't know it all and have to seek our more information."
Responses
1. I love how it touches on the origins of the work created whether it's music, film, dance, art, or even photography. We always make stuff from previous work as a foundation for our new ideas and build upon them in our own making afterward.
2. During the phase of the worker bee I am trying to improve on that for the comic series with my friends. I often focus too much on the future of its growth and success that I forget to do it. I need to focus more on the first comic since I don't know if it will be successful.
3. We are limited if we do the same things over and over again. A bit of more exposure to other stuff is important as well if we want to know more. It's also ok to admit that we don't know other stuff when asked about it if what they are asking is out of our scope of range.
Quotes From Dr. Maura Reilly
1. "'Curatorial Activism' is a term I use to designate the practice of organizing art exhibitions with the principle aim of ensuring that certain constituencies of artists are no longer ghettoized or excluded from the master narratives of art. It is a practice that commits itself to counter-hegemonic initiatives that give voice to those who have been historically silenced or omitted altogether—and, as such, focuses almost exclusively on work produced by women, artists of color, non-Euro-Americans, and/or queer artists."
2. "What we need is more transparency, and more education: If we cannot help others to see the structural/systemic problems, then we can’t even begin to fix them. We need to make statistics more readily available, so that the empirical data cannot be dismissed or denied."
3. "In the end, instead of denying statistics, or ignoring the subject of gender, race and sexuality altogether, we all need to stop making excuses and to face these issues head-on in order to come up with solutions, possibilities, and strategies for addressing these inequities."
Responses
1. Curatorial Activism is something I like about art exhibitions since this puts a focus on people outside of the confined norms of White Hetero Sexual Male perspectives. I always find those perspectives significantly limiting since they are so specific. I even account for them as a minority since mixed races can happen, which is primarily a majority besides the stereotypical white person.
2. Education is necessary to better understand the world. We will have biased views if we pretend we know everything from a limited perspective. This is especially true when conducting research and presenting results.
3. We have to confront the truths of reality that are happening to us and make solutions that help people in any way. Whenever a problem arises, it is bound to get into those subjects when looking into the root causes. Instead of trying to generalize and scapegoat someone or something, we need to confront the problems we are facing as well as ourselves with how we run the system.
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