Thursday, February 25, 2016

Textual Poaching Workshop

Textual Poaching

Each student will choose an existing, mediated representation of the culture, race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, etc. with which he/she identifies. The representation may be in any medium—film, photograph, visual art, poetry, literature, advertisement, news article, song, music video, etc.—but it should be older than the student. Students will remix the representation so that their new creation demonstrates their negotiation of this aspect of their identity and how it has been historically represented in media. Artist statements should include a discussion of the correlations and contradictions between his/her ‘self ’ (perspectives, practices, etc.) and this historical representation of this aspect of his/her identity.


Here's some examples of creating new things from things you stole:










Textual Poaching as a Representation of Power Structures

Judith Slaying Holofernes

Caravaggio (1598-99)



Artemisia Gentileschi (1614-1618)


Textual Poaching as (Re)Appropriation

Dear White People (2014) [00:26:00]




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