Cycle 3! – Thank a Black Woman
Posted: December 12, 2019 Filed under: Kylee Smith | Tags: Black women, dance, family, hair, installation, intermedia, spirit, thank you Leave a comment »The last round of this project was very fulfilling. I was so happy to be able to share my work with some new faces and for it to continue to be received so well by my classmates. The feedback that I got afterwards was incredibly affirming–it was a valuable and meaningful experience for my participants. Everything didn’t go perfect (I forgot to press record the first time around, whoops lol), but I decided to just go with it, and not be frantic about it. I would love another opportunity to dig the work just a little bit more because I feel that there is still more there to excavate.
This class, and this project in particular, has been inspiring in my personal research practice, and I am looking for ways to deepen these kinds of intermedia installation explorations and how they might inform the way I am crafting my MFA thesis.
I am extremely grateful for this experience. Thank you Oded and Alex for being tremendous supporters of a work that wasn’t about you. That doesn’t happen often.
Go tell a Black woman thank you. We deserve to be celebrated.
I will leave you with some images from my last exhibition.