Your Turn, Doctor

• Main Author: Mozayen, Leyla
• Format: Others
• Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2017
• Subjects: queer jihad; feminist caliphate; exhaustive sculpture; coping multitools; weaponize everything; contemporary art; Sculpture
• Online Access: http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4919; http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5973&context=etd

Between incurably degenerative illness and the graffiti which ignited the Syrian Civil War, YOUR TURN, DOCTOR complicates hope. When myths of revolution, of wellness, no longer console—love as measured in anything but loss. Within a multidisciplinary project how an increasingly painful embodiment intersects the material excess of capitalism is explored. Can objects function as a political demand, necessitating changes in the way the world is ordered? Who for? To understand one kind of oppression in necessary sterility and another in marginalization so profound blindness can result. That is to ask, how long must one be told they do not see a thing they see before they don’t, before transgressions become norms? A list of "Indulgences" modeled loosely after Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses outlines content. Five sections reference the five pillars of Islam— with each containing nineteen individual proposals. Nineteen serves as the common denominator for the mathematical structure of much of the text of the Quran.