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Jina Valentine

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jina valentine is a mother, visual artist, and educator. Her practice is informed by traditional craft techniques and interweaves histories latent within found texts, objects, narratives, and spaces. jina’s work involves language translation, mining content from material and digital archives, and experimental strategies for humanizing data-visualization. She is also co-founder of Black Lunch Table, an oral-history archiving project. Her work has received recognition and support from the Graham Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and Art Matters among others. jina received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon and her MFA from Stanford University.

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Description

The thematic structure of this course is situated around radical archiving, and it is named for the 2014 exhibition at the V&A Museum. Disobedient Objects will introduce students to the visual languages,
graphic trends, and production methods used in contemporary social movements 1960s to present. We will visit, study, and create works in response to ephemera in various archives around Chicago. We will examine how radical (democratic or disruptive) archiving conceptually relates to more performative, gestural, or ephemeral forms; the ways an entire studio practice, a human life, or a single object can be considered an archive.

Readings + artists discussed include: Sharon Hayes, Julie Ault, Emory Douglas, Lucy Lippard, Gregory Sholette, Group Material. Archives visited + discussed include: Interference Archive; Gerber/Hart Library of LGBTQ history, SNCC Archives, ACT UP Chicago records. Familiarity with screenprinting is *highly recommended*.

Class Number

2175

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1931

Credits

3 - 6