艺术家声明

Callaloo Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI:10.1353/cal.2024.a935721

Marcus Morris

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作为摘要，这里是内容的简要摘录：马库斯-莫里斯（Marcus Morris）（简历）我的作品通过图像制作来探索解放。我对摄影和动态影像如何用作个人和全球自由的工具很感兴趣。我通过传统和另类摄影方法、视频、装置和表演来探索这一问题。我目前的项目 "优雅就是拒绝"（Elegance Is Refusal）旨在通过制作新的图像来重新想象过去的创伤。托尼-莫里森（Toni Morrison）的《心爱的人》（Beloved）为我提供了一个宽松的框架，让我作为俄亥俄州阿巴拉契亚千禧年的黑人同性恋者参与童年创伤的创作。对我来说，"优雅 "是 "酷 "的女性化，长期以来一直与黑人文化联系在一起，它将黑人同性恋者和女性身份视为在白人至上的父权资本主义制度下权力和拒绝的源泉。优雅就是拒绝》一书出自编辑戴安娜-弗里兰（Diana Vreeland）之手，她说："优雅是与生俱来的。它与衣着光鲜无关。优雅就是拒绝"。该项目采用戏剧服装来营造重建时期的景象。我与泽维尔-克鲁兹（Xavier Cruz）合作，由他扮演年轻时的自己，通过同性恋母亲的身份，与种族、性别、性、历史、阶级以及自由的承诺进行互动。这组图片和视频是在我的家族自 19 世纪初获得解放以来一直居住在俄亥俄州的土地附近拍摄的。在我的艺术实践中重拾历史和身份对于获得解放至关重要。摄影过程中发生的宣泄，即使没有和解，也能让人获得自由。人们可以拍一张照片，找到平静，然后继续前进。这是献给那些看不见的黑人、同性恋者和阿巴拉契亚人的礼物，他们是幽灵，所以我才能在野外生存。点击放大查看完整分辨率 [尾页 59] 点击放大查看完整分辨率 [尾页 60] 点击放大查看完整分辨率 [尾页 61] 点击放大查看完整分辨率 [尾页 62] 点击放大查看完整分辨率 [尾页 63] 马库斯-莫里斯 MARCUS MORRIS 是一位来自阿巴拉契亚的多学科艺术家和图像制作者，他的作品以同性恋和表演为中心。他是俄亥俄州立大学摄影专业的硕士研究生，并于 2012 年获得哥伦布艺术与设计学院的学士学位。此外，他还在南非开普敦大学迈克尔斯美术学院学习了六个月的艺术和摄影。他曾在 NoPlace Gallery、Herron Gallery、934 Gallery、ROY G BIV 和 Urban Arts Space 展出过作品。他是韦克斯纳艺术中心（The Wexner Center for the Arts）实验电影节目系列 "Cineseries "的创始人之一，曾获得大哥伦布艺术委员会（Greater Columbus Arts Council）的资助，还是比勒画廊（Beeler Gallery）"2024 Fotofocus 双年展 "的联合策展人。他还是俄亥俄州立大学的研究生教学助理。版权所有 © 2024 约翰斯-霍普金斯大学出版社 ...

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Artist's Statement

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

Artist's Statement
Marcus Morris (bio)

My work explores liberation via imagemaking. I am interested in the way photography and the moving image can be used as tools for personal and global liberty. I explore this with traditional and alternative photographic methods, video, installation, and performance.

Elegance Is Refusal, my current project, aims to reimagine the past by making new images where trauma existed. Beloved by Toni Morrison provides a loose framework for engaging childhood trauma as a Black queer millennial in Appalachian Ohio. Elegance, to me a feminine of "cool," long associated with Black culture, considers Black queer and femme identity as a source of power and refusal in a white supremacist patriarchal capitalist system. Elegance Is Refusal comes from the editor Diana Vreeland, who says, "Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal." The project employs theatrical costuming to set the stage of a Reconstruction-era landscape. Working with Xavier Cruz, cast to play my younger self, I engage race, gender, sexuality, history, class, and the promise of liberty via queer mothering. The series of images and video is made near land my family has occupied in Ohio since being emancipated in the early 19^th century.

Reclaiming history and identity in my art practice feels essential for liberation. Catharsis that happens in the photographic process, even without reconciliation, can be freeing. One can make a picture, find peace, and move on. It is an offering to the invisible Black, queer, and Appalachian people who were ghosts so I could be in the wild. [End Page 59]

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Marcus Morris

MARCUS MORRIS is a multidisciplinary artist and imagemaker from Appalachia whose work centers queerness and performance. He is an MFA fellow in Photography from The Ohio State University and received his BFA from Columbus College of Art & Design in 2012. In addition, he spent six months studying art and photography at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa. He has exhibited work at NoPlace Gallery, Herron Gallery, 934 Gallery, ROY G BIV and Urban Arts Space. He is a founder of Cineseries, an experimental film program series at The Wexner Center for the Arts, was recipient of the Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, and is co-curator of the 2024 Fotofocus Biennale at Beeler Gallery. He is a graduate teaching associate at The Ohio State University.

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