Question and "Riot" Show Research

Question for (BLO: http://www.rtmark.com/legacy/bloscript.html):

Did it ever occur to you guys that rather than the parents wisening up and realizing the strange change that had occurred in the Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls on the basis of your intended motives (how they enforce gener-specific stereo-types, but you wanted to get away from that) themselves that they would just choose to throw them out as defective and purchase new and or different ones?


(Jill-posted question)Do some artist construct new canvases to broadcast their ideas outside of the old structure?

The guys from Graffiti Research Lab was a major example of artists constructing new canvases. Their canvases werne't typical in the sense of when we think painting canvases, but theirs were actual buildings they used to project holographic-like imagery and text upon. With exhibiting their work or attempting to make a statement, they went on a much broader level than most non-professionals are able to. They broadcast their injustices and wanted freedoms in areas where they would really be seen by a myriad of people near and far.



"Reasons to Riot" Show

There was an installation by Derrek Adams entitled "Playthings." It featured several traditional African dolls that were dressed up in varying fashions and strewn about a monopoly-like game board that was designed to be a neighborhood. Above the piece, where photographs of the dolls which had the light and angles manually manipulated to appear somewhat life-like and real. I found this piece really interesting and aesthetically eye-catchy. It makes me think that the artist wanted to portray African s/African-American as having a very prominent place in the United States, and in the world itself, more so than history has often subjected us to be. With the depiction of the dolls in various contemporary, flashy, average-looking, and business attire, it seems that the artist wanted to reflect on how African-Americans can be and are unique in their own ways, and that we are all not baggy clothes-wearing, skimpy clothes-wearing, crude, ignorant people as is so often depicted in modern cinema, like music videos, tv shows of the past and present, books, etc. We move around the world with a sense of our place within it, in tune with our communities and outer communities.