Artist Presentation

Links:
Odile and Odette clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLmS3ruy5LA

Yinka Shonibare:
http://www.art21.org/videos/segment-yinka-shonibare-mbe-in-transformation

https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/shonibare/odette.html

What riding my bike has taught me about white privilege:
http://qz.com/257474/what-riding-my-bike-has-taught-me-about-white-privilege/

Discussion questions posed:

What is white privilege?

What makes it hard to accept white privilege?

Where do we go from there?    

Artistic Response:
       During my artist presentation on Yinka Shonibare's piece "Odile and Odette," our class talked about white privilege. I asked the class about ideas of how to deal with white privilege. Some people talked about dealing with it by trying to find the voices around that are unheard. Another person suggested that we just need to stop focusing on the differences and see each other as equals. As children of God. After our discussion in class I decided I wanted to make a response as a hope to "humanize" people we don't know. I surveyed 70 people online through qualtrics and used their responses to create an interactive artwork. Here are pictures of the piece, though the real piece would be installed in a gallery for viewers to navigate through themselves.

      The three different colors represent the questions posed and all of the dots link to responses. So ideally this would be displayed on a big screen just with the image of all the tiny dots, and the key image displayed off to the side. Viewers would then click on any dot to find a corresponding response, and just be able to explore the many different answers that were given. See the examples below.