This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Heirloom - Kevin Houlahan



I came across the black orb I stated was an heirloom I currently have in possession. The object is as I had remembered it. Small, portable, and deep black. The object was given to me by my aunt in Mexico as a sign of positivity. The object is meant to absorb negative energy in its surroundings and leave behind only an aura of positive energy. 

-Kevin Houlahan
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