This is My Family: An Erasure
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu14923992200295982021-08-03T07:01:44Z This is My Family: An Erasure Rehman, Sadia Aesthetics African American Studies African Americans American History Architectural Architecture Art History Asian American Studies Asian Studies Black History Black Studies Film Studies Fine Arts Gender Gender Studies Geography History Individual and Family Studies Islamic Studies Performing Arts South Asian Studies Womens Studies World History markmaking cutouts collage stencil family photographs ritual object intimate object transliteration English Urdu installations photographs video barrier body race gender sexuality queer performance language Muslim Pakistani Many of my childhood memories are centered around my family’s twenty-seven-inch Sony Trinitron television, which was cornered in a living room with orange walls and orange carpet in Queens, New York. Watching TV exercised my ability to subconsciously process images that were significantly different from one to the next. It is from watching TV daily that my mom learned English from The Days of Our Lives, that my dad learned Western comedy from The Jeffersons and Saturday Night Live, that my older siblings learned how to rebel by watching late-night music videos and that I learned my alphabets from Sesame Street. Along with steamy soap operas, science-fiction cartoons, and slapstick sitcoms, we watched campy Bollywood movies and instructive Islamic sermons. This early exposure to disparate moving images informs the way I select the content for my work. I use a range of sacred, mundane, and profane images that I have collected over the years. My archive consists of family photographs taken in the United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, found images, audio, film and video clips. I engage in the processes of dismantling, layering and reassembling to examine questions of language and storytelling, original and copy, normative and deviant. 2017-08-02 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492399220029598 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492399220029598 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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Aesthetics African American Studies African Americans American History Architectural Architecture Art History Asian American Studies Asian Studies Black History Black Studies Film Studies Fine Arts Gender Gender Studies Geography History Individual and Family Studies Islamic Studies Performing Arts South Asian Studies Womens Studies World History markmaking cutouts collage stencil family photographs ritual object intimate object transliteration English Urdu installations photographs video barrier body race gender sexuality queer performance language Muslim Pakistani Rehman, Sadia This is My Family: An Erasure |
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