comprises a series of different projects on the theme of Whiteness.
The works include:
The White Man Project
Performance/Action, Ink portraits, 2004, Rotterdam The Netherlands.
A caucasian (white) actor is hired to portray the artist 'Jean-Ulrick Désert' and offer free Art Lesson's to the public in the BRUCE New Art Foundation gallery space- Images of the Zwarte Piet, a white dutch person in black-face along side shopping bag images of two american performers in white-face hung in the gallery windows. The art lesson brochures used Édouard Manet's odalisque painting Olympia of 1863.
White Lessons
Is a lecture delivered as part of the Re-Positionierung Lecture series at the Neue Geselschaft für bildende Kunst e.V.( NGBK/The New Society for Visual Arts) Berlin and Humboldt University's W.E.B. duBois Lectures of the Amerikanistik program Berlin. The accompanying Youtube-video links may be accessed through the following link www.WhiteLessons.Blogspot.Com
The Hip Decadence of Reductive Glamour
, Digital photography 2000 Paris France, An action and series of photographs taken in Parisian photo-booths
Negerhosen2000
1997 (Initiated during Documenta X, Kassel Germany) and 2001
- 1. Édouard Manet's (1832 -1883) Olympia 1863, Musée d'Orsay, Paris France
- 2. Black Face in the Netherlands is held as a tradition in the figure of Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). A short but clear summary may be found on a Journalist's site HERE
- 3. A dutch comedy expresses the indignity of servitude from the traditional Zwarte Piet, as a modern day domestic, in this VIDEO link
