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I have been collaborating with the members of Delta Gamma Theta, a fraternity located in the heart of the Pratt School of Art and Design campus in Brooklyn. My original inspiration for this project took place last December when I accidentally found myself at their annual "Formal" party after a nearby studio visit for my project Bonds of Love.
Bonds of Love is a project designed as a specific commentary on the nature of public perception of male- vs. female-dominated exhibitions and the obvious nature of the latter’s unavoidable politicization. In her essay about the exhibition, Chris Kraus has noted: “All the work in this show is based on experience. This commonality seems more important than the obvious fact that the artists involved are all female. Drawn from various cities and two or three generations, the artists selected by Lisa Kirk are all somehow committed to infiltrating, exposing, various cultures and customs. Often their own. 'Political' isn’t the point. Neither is 'personal.' […] For these works to be made, the artist, it seems, had to be there. One thing leads to another. Art here functions as anthropology, in its most utopian form.”
To further this investigation, I would intend to collaborate with the members of Delta Gamma Theta to illustrate some of the rituals associated with their initiation practices (please see jpg’s and links below). Perhaps as a tool to reflect the institutionalization of these (rituals) within the art world as it were, but also to bring up a dialogue of the process of cultural inclusion and exclusion. With all of that said, my interest in working with Delta Gamma Theta, “a gentleman’s fraternity,” is to push the boundaries of these ideas.
Only time will tell...
link: http://deltagammatheta.com/photoindex.html
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| From the Delta Gamma Theta Archives |
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| From the Delta Gamma Theta Archives |