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IDENTITY CRISIS:
REDEFINING THE OTHER IN FRED WILSON‟S SPEAK OF ME AS I AM
by
Kristin D. Juarez
____________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES
May 2010
Copyright 2010 Kristin D. Juarez
Object Description
| Title | Identity crisis: redefining the other in Fred Wilson's Speak of me as I am |
| Author | Juarez, Kristin D. |
| Author email | kdjuarez@gmail.com; kdjuarez@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Public Art Studies |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Public Art Studies |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-05-13 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-05-13 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Anastas, Rhea |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Bryan-Wilson, Julia Decter, Joshua |
| Abstract | At the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, Fred Wilson produced a series of discrete but interrelated pieces collectively titled Speak of Me as I Am. Comprised of Venetian Renaissance paintings, kitsch objects, and original work, Wilson revealed the continued marginalized presence of black bodies in the Venetian imaginary. A post-colonial analysis, though apt, provides a limited interpretation of the work as direct critique of race in past and present Venetian culture. It does however fail to recognize how Wilson uses Venice as a subject to express his own subconscious and crisis of identity following 9/11. In Turbulence and September Dream, Wilson encourages the viewer to not only recognize how representations of others inform collective identity, but also how establishing otherness maintains the individual psyche. By re-contextualizing otherness within a feminist and psychoanalytic framework, Wilson’s focus on subjectivity during war reinterprets the political gesture in Speak of Me as I Am. |
| Keyword | Venice Biennale; Fred Wilson; identity; psychoanalysis; public art |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Venice |
| Geographic subject (country) | Italy; USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3084 |
| Rights | Juarez, Kristin D. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Juarez-3509 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume35/etd-Juarez-3509.pdf |
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| Full text | IDENTITY CRISIS: REDEFINING THE OTHER IN FRED WILSON‟S SPEAK OF ME AS I AM by Kristin D. Juarez ____________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES May 2010 Copyright 2010 Kristin D. Juarez |
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