In this essay I make an attempt to propose a different view of the world. A look that turns to the world as it is. A look that longs for a world that addresses the world as it is. In this text, as in my graduation exhibition, I have used the cabinet of curiosities as a method. I have built the text in different text fragments where I present different ideas, thoughts and discussions about the displacements that people are put in, in a class society. The headings act as an instruction or rather a pointer for the reader. I use dialogue, poetry and lyrical prose in this hybrid essay to build a scene of the displacements I write about. Class markers that trick one into consuming oneself closer to norms have a central position in my essay. I want to highlight how different subordinates play out with each other.How performative assimilation is just performative assimilation, thus other limitations masked in glitter. Beware of the distance that is the consumer society. Beware of how our subjectivity is shaped by marketing.By reading and thinking together with authors such as Athena Farrokhzad, Mara Lee, James Baldwin, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Anne McClintock, Yahya Hassan, Don Mee Choi, Kristina Lugn, bell hooks and Jennifer Hayashida I examine the power of language, performative assimilation, economic capital, material capital, how accessibility that is said to be accessible is less accessible than we think, and how different class markers can create an illusion of a class belonging to which you do not belong.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-9023 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Maghder, Nadia |
| Publisher | Konstfack, Institutionen för Konst (K) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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