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.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

The Pink and Blue Project

"The Blue Project" Jake and His Blue Things, 2006 (l) "The Pink Project" Dayeun and Her Pink Things, 2007

JeongMee Yoon examines in her work, The Blue and Pink Project, the gender-specific marketing for boys and girls. Color have always been associated with gender for as long as I have known, especially when it comes to a newborn baby or toddlers. It's interesting to consider how color sometimes become a determining factor of how feminine or masculine an individual might be. If say, a man is wearing pink, one might say that he is potentially a homosexual. And if a woman were to omit pink out of her color palette, she must be a tomboy.

Article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/04/09/jeongmee_yoon_the_pink_and_blue_project_examines_the_gender_specific_marketing.html

-Nova

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