Over the course of the Fall 2021 semester, we, the students of Critical Inquiry: Straining the Letters into Noise, Direct and Undetectable, Speech, developed personal creative projects focused on a subject of our choosing.
These projects were initially inspired by weekly free writes practiced earlier in the semester, but have since expanded into greater explorations of identity, narrative, language, and ritual, among other themes.
Our collaborative project, Bodily Sensations of Joyful Work, is a manifesto we created inspired by Workaholics Anonymous’s “Working Joyfully" chart that appears in Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade, and the list of Body Sensations that appears in Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication by Meenadchi. We felt it best to display these pieces together on this collaborative site, as they each truly encapsulate joyful work.
Please enjoy.
tldr they colonized bananas
you receive a file from an unknown, yet strangely familiar digital presence who has been trying to reach you...
I spent a lot of this semester writing about and thinking about memories. Where they live, where they can be found, and how memory/stories/narratives can be embedded into objects. And this led me to start considering archives and exploring which objects I encounter every day that could be considered an archive.
This set of 22 CMYK Screen prints are images of things I consider to be Accidental Archives; things that unintentionally act as a record of information, share stories, or act as an account of existence or action in a way that feels archival by nature.
(i.e. A Cemetery being an Archive of lives and deaths, of families, of where someone lived; The library due date cards being an archive of time and places that book has, how popular the book is, or how old; The shortcut Buttons on a radio serving as an archive of someone's interest in music, their recent locations, or the person(s) who has recently driven the car)