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If I was white

I was over at the National Gallery of Victoria this weekend and was deeply provoked by a beautiful piece from Vernon Ah Kee, Kuku Yalanji, Waanyi, Koko Berrin, Yidindji, and Gugu Yimithirr. If I […]

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Modern Art Oxford Visuals: Twelve.

More jarring societal critique from Barbara Kruger at Modern Art Oxford. These people are idiots./ She’s a vampire./ I’m right and you’re wrong./ Talk is cheap./ Stop texting./ Don’t tell […]

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Modern Art Oxford Visuals: Untitled (Titled).

Some gold from Barbara Kruger at Modern Art Oxford. Is that all there is?/ Who will write the history of tears?/ Is there life without pain? Some precious people. Exit […]

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The last of my Pitt Rivers Museum visuals. Anthropologists like to collect things. Negotiating markers of beauty. Negotiating persona way before the birth of Persona Studies, yo. “AFRICA, MALAWI, MZUZU. […]

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Pitt Rivers Visuals: Skulls.

More from the rabbit hole that is Pitt Rivers Museum. “These shrunken heads, or tsantsas, are from the densely forested Upper Amazon region between Peru and Ecuador. The Shuar, Achuar, […]

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Pitt Rivers Visuals: On pain.

I totally nerded out and died at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. “The objects in the museum are arranged by purpose or use, so that you can compare how people in […]

Film & TV

A look at celebrity entertainment channels

Written in early 2008 for an undergraduate class on Popular Culture. Celebrity entertainment channels are often assumed to offer the mainstream flow of material given the nature of their sensationalistic and […]

WISHCRYS

Galleries

If I was white

Modern Art Oxford Visuals: Twelve.

Modern Art Oxford Visuals: Untitled (Titled).

Pitt Rivers Visuals: Fine.

Pitt Rivers Visuals: Skulls.

Pitt Rivers Visuals: On pain.

A look at celebrity entertainment channels