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 2, 2014

New Museum- 1993


A few years ago, the New Museum had an exhibit called ”NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star." 
“NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” looks at art made and exhibited in New York over the course of one year. Centering on 1993, the exhibition is conceived as a time capsule, an experiment in collective memory that attempts to capture a specific moment at the intersection of art, pop culture, and politics." -New Museum Website

When watching the After Stonewall documentary and hearing them discus the AIDS crisis, I remember this one piece that really stood out to me in the exhibit. 


"In this timeless series of photographs, “Gilles and Gotscho” (1992–93), artist Nan Goldin brings together four pictures of her Parisian art dealer Gilles Dusein and his partner Gotscho (also an artist). Dusein was an ardent supporter of Goldin’s work but died due to complications from AIDS in the early 1990s, like many of Goldin’s closest companions.
Although Goldin is a passionate activist for gay rights and AIDS awareness, these photographs are not politically motivated. Rather, they reveal truths about love, loss, and pain that transcend the disease and its afflicted communities."

http://newmuseum.tumblr.com/post/50819297987/in-this-timeless-series-of-photographs-gilles


-Isabella C. 
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