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Coded
Skin
(2003) is part of an on-going audio/visual/photography project
on Perceptions of Blackness. The project stems from spaceape's
interest in the processes that codify race and species through
the skin. These processes have mainly been understood in terms
of representation whereby the perception of skin is a reflection
of identity and belonging. However, spaceape's
interest in the perception of blackness draws more closely
on the Theory of Affect, according to which perception is
not an action of the mind, but involves the synaesthetic action
of the senses. We feel before we interpret. From this standpoint,
my use of photography aims to act on the senses so as to challenge
the habitual perception of blackness. These images were exhibited
as part of Coded Skin - the video -
(click here) at the Instituto
Universitario Orientale di Napoli, Naples, Italy
in December 2003. |
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