Academic, Columbia University, Spring 2018 

Studio: What If 

Tutors: Sarah Dunn + Martin Felsen

Description: SHE 

• is a statement in which ideas of utopia, leisure, and pride in being female are played out 

•  suggests a narrative for all women, especially oppressed and so called ‘bad’ 
•  is a manifestation against patriarchal social structure and ideas of normatively/propriety 
• resists easy definition and defies confinement
• is surreal, she is fantastic, she is grotesque 
•  accepts every color of expression 
•  is a beautiful monster where monstrousness is human, political and a metaphor for goodness 
•  possesses intimacy and connectedness and defies objectification with her spectacular interior 
• is phantasmagoric, open, colorful and carnivalesque, ready for birth 
• is interactive and explorable, deliberately too large to be taken in and consumed from different angles 
• is a shelter, a protector, an ideal of cultural strength, central to the community
• is fundamentally a challenge to the sexist precepts of public representation 
• is a celebration of sexual liberty and humanity 
• is right in the middle of social interaction, actively being the spectator and the subject, autonomous and politically conscious