about othering.collected
Othering (collected) is a socially engaged work and installation occurring at the 2017 Thinking Its Presence Conference through which we are exploring spatial and racial othering produced by texts. Your participation is at the heart of how we will create our ephemeral archive to be projected at the end of each day.
We invite you to choose passages from these texts that resonate with you, and to creatively rework and/or respond to them. Please join us at our pop-up “en-counter” during coffee and lunch breaks (outside the Poetry Center) and digitally at Othering (collected).
Othering (collected) is instigated by our research about the internment during WWII of Japanese Americans in so-called relocation centers, such as Poston and Gila on Arizona Tribal lands and in Tucson’s former Federal Honor Camp. Our intention is to foreground blurring of truths, states of anxiety, and misguided judgements that resonate with our current political climate.
Your texts and images, collected into the ephemeral archive, may contribute towards a larger performative installation, Intern[ed], to be presented November 17-19 in Tucson. Othering (collected) and Intern[ed] contribute towards Beth Weinstein’s practice-based doctoral research through the University of Tasmania. Please consent to participate before doing so.
We thank you for your participation!
other iterations of the project
past
"Othering and Othered," published in [TRANS]-ient 03, May 2017
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future
30 September Othering.Collected, Exploded View / Microcinema, Tucson.
19-21 October Othering.Collected, Thinking Its Presence Conference, Poetry Center, Tucson.
17-19 November Intern[ed], Sundt Gallery, School of Architecture, University of Arizona, Tucson (durational performance + installation)
CONTACT US
Ana Martínez, PhD, is a performance scholar and designer. Her creations foreground scenography as a medium for social comment, and have been shown in the US, England, Germany, and Mexico. Her chapter about the 2001 march by the Zapatistas to the Zócalo is included in Performance and the Global City.
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Beth Weinstein works at the seam between architecture and performance, across scales from drawing to installation, to urban and landscape interventions. Her doctoral project (University of Tasmania) explores “Spatial Labour: Manifesting the hidden in architectural (un/re)making.” Beth is also an associate professor of architecture at the University of Arizona.