Description/Abstract/Artist Statement
Wear & Tear is a documentary poetics project acknowledging and addressing the systematic policing, silencing, violence, and stripping of self-expression that women have suffered at the hands of cultural, societal, religious, and sexist norms. Wear & Tear is a hybrid research project which draws together mass culture archives and uses heterogenous sources like advertisements and juxtapose these with excerpts from sacred texts which seek to proscribe and circumscribe women’s clothing choices. It models itself on archival works such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee which works with image, language, and voice. My project presents a distinctly material cultural history of women’s work and labor. Wear & Tear is about those in the world who have done and still do their best to tear women down and those who have used what women wear to do it. But more importantly, this poem is about women wearing whatever they please, without fear of reprisals, and tearing down the walls that confine them along the way.
Faculty Advisor/Mentor
Margaret Konkol
College Affiliation
College of Arts & Letters
Presentation Type
Artwork
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Women's History | Women's Studies
Session Title
Art Exhibit
Location
Learning Commons @ Perry Library
Start Date
3-19-2022 9:15 AM
End Date
3-19-2022 11:00 AM
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Wear & Tear
Learning Commons @ Perry Library
Wear & Tear is a documentary poetics project acknowledging and addressing the systematic policing, silencing, violence, and stripping of self-expression that women have suffered at the hands of cultural, societal, religious, and sexist norms. Wear & Tear is a hybrid research project which draws together mass culture archives and uses heterogenous sources like advertisements and juxtapose these with excerpts from sacred texts which seek to proscribe and circumscribe women’s clothing choices. It models itself on archival works such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee which works with image, language, and voice. My project presents a distinctly material cultural history of women’s work and labor. Wear & Tear is about those in the world who have done and still do their best to tear women down and those who have used what women wear to do it. But more importantly, this poem is about women wearing whatever they please, without fear of reprisals, and tearing down the walls that confine them along the way.