Key Learnings/ Ideas: Reflect on potential applications in your understanding of community-engaged arts practices or your understanding of your own artistic practice in particular:
War
Identifying the worth of a human- what elements determine a perpetrator from a victim in a situation as complex as war?
Prisoners
People from all backgrounds have vulnerabilities and contexts that led them to their states in life. Living in any condition comes with limitations- what determines how we live a life? At what point does punishment become too much to be humans? Using song to fully convey hyper specific thoughts and experience by use of emotion and tone. -"It Was Me Who Did It"
Runaway Girls
The power of human connection supersedes barriers of language and culture. People do not need to have common ground as long as emotion is conveyed to complement to message of a piece.
While Theater of Witness feels too much like trauma porn to me (a step up from Sebastian Sierra's works in my mind) I do incorporate aspects from the perspective of multiple different social groups and how perspectives and biases change the meaning and messaging of my personal work. Identifying the effects of actions has always proven more powerful for me than convincing someone to understand another unrelated group's struggles- it's impossible to have the context and experience to properly empathize when you are too privileged or have a lived experience far too different from someone else to grasp at another's way of life. In this way I purposefully subvert people's understandings, not just of each other, but of their own lives to make them question how they fit in society or lead their own lives. In order to question society's structures, people need to be shaken enough that they separate themselves from society's breakdown of normality, morality, and human worth.
War
Identifying the worth of a human- what elements determine a perpetrator from a victim in a situation as complex as war?
Prisoners
People from all backgrounds have vulnerabilities and contexts that led them to their states in life. Living in any condition comes with limitations- what determines how we live a life? At what point does punishment become too much to be humans? Using song to fully convey hyper specific thoughts and experience by use of emotion and tone. -"It Was Me Who Did It"
Runaway Girls
The power of human connection supersedes barriers of language and culture. People do not need to have common ground as long as emotion is conveyed to complement to message of a piece.
While Theater of Witness feels too much like trauma porn to me (a step up from Sebastian Sierra's works in my mind) I do incorporate aspects from the perspective of multiple different social groups and how perspectives and biases change the meaning and messaging of my personal work. Identifying the effects of actions has always proven more powerful for me than convincing someone to understand another unrelated group's struggles- it's impossible to have the context and experience to properly empathize when you are too privileged or have a lived experience far too different from someone else to grasp at another's way of life. In this way I purposefully subvert people's understandings, not just of each other, but of their own lives to make them question how they fit in society or lead their own lives. In order to question society's structures, people need to be shaken enough that they separate themselves from society's breakdown of normality, morality, and human worth.
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