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Azikiwe Mohammed
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2015
Grant Summary
Support for ongoing work.
Keywords
Artist Statement
By re-contextualizing well
defined and documented ideas / display methods traditionally attributed to
white people and their accompanying history I hope to offer a different look or
starting point for a current conversation about black history / people. Both
the black race and the white race are American constructs that are maintained
to protect white interests. If these two races / ideas are constructs, than is
the history based on these things a construct as well? Is this history as
malleable as the lies we are fed in retellings of events passed? What if we
were given a different starting point? What if the language that has been
developed to talk about whiteness was used to describe blackness? What would
that look like? Once placed back in their appropriate historical context do
these new images carry the same message? I am still not sure of an answer but I
am working to find out.