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A performance installation that questions cultural perceptions.
A performance installation that questions cultural perceptions.
2009
2009
Upon entering the space, viewers are asked to take a piece of cardboard with a set of instructions on them. The instructions are:
Upon entering the space, viewers are asked to take a piece of cardboard with a set of instructions on them. The instructions are:
Sometime during the viewing of the show Recognition hold the cardboard up to your face and look at the show through the cutout figure. My hope is that because you will experience a shift in physical perspective by looking through the cardboard, you will also experience a shift in perspective about women who wear the veil.
Sometime during the viewing of the show Recognition hold the cardboard up to your face and look at the show through the cutout figure. My hope is that because you will experience a shift in physical perspective by looking through the cardboard, you will also experience a shift in perspective about women who wear the veil.
The installation space includes the table holding the cardboard cutouts, a frieze of small silhouettes of veiled women, several paintings, a projection of a poem by Judy Grahn, and a lifesize paper figure created by artist Jill Littlewood. I was present in a silent performance wearing an abaya from Saudi Arabia.
The installation space includes the table holding the cardboard cutouts, a frieze of small silhouettes of veiled women, several paintings, a projection of a poem by Judy Grahn, and a lifesize paper figure created by artist Jill Littlewood. I was present in a silent performance wearing an abaya from Saudi Arabia.
They say she is veiled
and a mystery. That is
one way of looking.
Another
is that she is where
she always has been,
exactly in place,
and it is we,
we who are mystified,
we who are veiled
and without faces.
- Judy Grahn
Recognition was created as part of Angie Dowell Liljequist's class, Women, Dress, and Culture, at Pittsburg State University.
Recognition was photographed by Jack Clayton and Marianne Evans-Lombe and filmed by Graceanna De-l.
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