Dred Scott Critique
I attended the teach in event with artist Dred Scott. I thought that this event was so remarkable. It definitely opened up my eyes to the ability of art to be revolutionary and to “propel history forward”. The artist focused on 3 of his work: the proper way to display the US flag, the wanted project, and the burning of the money on wall street.
The project that he titled “the proper way to display a US flag” was fascinating to me. He spoke about how it lead to the senate voting to ban the display of the US flag on the floor. He also read comments and feedback that he got back from people. I was amazed at how much this revealed about the American society and patriotism. A woman that wrote to him said that “if this was done in Germany, people …show more content…
I feel so close to the wanted project, as someone who lives in NYC and as an African-American woman who fears for her younger brother. In this project, he brought people to come describe people that they have only met briefly to a polician artist. Some of the people clearly didn’t know the race of people. A woman in the video said that the person she was describing was “ light dark”. In addition, she could not tell the person`s race , which I do admit could be confusing. I believe that this experiment shows how little information know about the people that they are describing. Later, the drawings were put on a poster with information from the police records of why people were stopped. Some of the reasons included ridiculous things like standing in front of a building. I feel like this project shows the reality of the stop and frisk policy in new York city and how it affects minorities in new York city. The project also shows the criminalization of young male in color. After the making of the poster, the artist went to grocery stores and asked to put up the flyer. He also said that at first he was met with resistance from the store owners. However, after explaining to them what the posters were, they accepted and even became spokespersons for the project and its message. I love how political this work is and how it leads to a community
The project that he titled “the proper way to display a US flag” was fascinating to me. He spoke about how it lead to the senate voting to ban the display of the US flag on the floor. He also read comments and feedback that he got back from people. I was amazed at how much this revealed about the American society and patriotism. A woman that wrote to him said that “if this was done in Germany, people …show more content…
I feel so close to the wanted project, as someone who lives in NYC and as an African-American woman who fears for her younger brother. In this project, he brought people to come describe people that they have only met briefly to a polician artist. Some of the people clearly didn’t know the race of people. A woman in the video said that the person she was describing was “ light dark”. In addition, she could not tell the person`s race , which I do admit could be confusing. I believe that this experiment shows how little information know about the people that they are describing. Later, the drawings were put on a poster with information from the police records of why people were stopped. Some of the reasons included ridiculous things like standing in front of a building. I feel like this project shows the reality of the stop and frisk policy in new York city and how it affects minorities in new York city. The project also shows the criminalization of young male in color. After the making of the poster, the artist went to grocery stores and asked to put up the flyer. He also said that at first he was met with resistance from the store owners. However, after explaining to them what the posters were, they accepted and even became spokespersons for the project and its message. I love how political this work is and how it leads to a community