| NOELLE LORRAINE WILLIAMS
AMERICAN ALIENATION | LIBERATION
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| SCULPTURE
| PHOTOGRAPHY | MALA| 2006
| ESSAYS
| UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
| SPECIAL PROJECTS
| BIOGRAPHY | CV| RESUME
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“Not only ideas, but emotions too, are cultural artefacts in man.”- Clifford Gertz, Interpretation of Cultures 1973
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AMERICAN ALIENATION
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|ESSAYS | Essays, Meditations, Project Notes and Short Statements
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My practice is a dialogue. Whether between the written word and the construction of an object, or conversations and collaborations with other people, cultures, beliefs and materials I reveal the truth of our condition through interpreting and representing the borders of conflict.
Below are my essays that I write in preparation for installations and sculptures.
"To be fully human, American, or citizen is depicted in American culture as seeing and understanding the world primarily in the first person. It is characterized by understanding the world as a series of moments, peoples and actions that conspire to serve your own “individual destiny.” However, the subaltern, the bad girl, the mother, grandmother is cultivated to perceive the world and themselves mainly though what Frantz Fanon calls a “third person consciousness” or W.E.B. Dubois describes as a “double consciousness” -“a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.” Through these perceptions one becomes a negotiator of other people’s destinies, actions, bodies, realities and bodies a layered and ever shifting reality and perception of self, a personal culture that Darlene Clark Hine calls “culture of dissemblance.”" - Noelle Lorraine Williams, Borderline Exhibition Installation Notes
|ESSAYS
Making Love to Our Mothers' Mothers: Black Skins White Masks| Meditations|
September 2009 - November 2009
(4 Pages)
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The King is Dead! Condoleezza’s Coup D’etat | Jersey City Museum | Feminine Mystique Installation Proposal
July 2007
(3 Pages)
|PROJECT NOTES
Afusion Exhibition | Encounter Project Notes|
February 2008
(9 Pages)
Collaboration with Adejoke Tugbiyele Sedita
(Notes presented in lieu of object exhibition)
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|SHORT STATEMENTS
Even You Mama? Frankly it was Realized that they were Nasty not just "Lesbians." | Short Statement
July 2009
(1 Page)
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The Cakewalk Soldier's Ade | Short Statement |
November 2007
(1 Page)
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