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Art and Art History Student Work
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Accessibility:
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Work Title (display):
North Gate
Image Title:
video
Work Description:
Thesis abstract: My research focuses primarily on an almost 200-year-old land dispute in Southern Colorado, concerning La Sierra in the Sangre de Cristo Range. In my work, I have displaced several rocks from La Sierra and abutting properties, transporting them from their original context to my home in Boulder, Colorado. I have inserted the rocks into an electronically simulated environment, mirroring their original points of extraction. Surround audio collected at the north gate of La Sierra, as well as wind data transmitted in real-time from the original site of the rocks, are executed in a room in my house through WiFi transmission and electronic mechanisms. During the exhibition, the general public is allowed live-stream viewing access to the installation via webcam. With these movements, I explore the complexities of a paternalistic and objectified perspective on land ownership as well as possible solutions offered by contemporary philosophical and sociopolitical critiques. More specifically, my research considers the use of conservation rhetoric as a veil for colonial agendas. The goal of this writing is to deconstruct classist and commercialistic binaries and instead to help foster perspectives on healthy relationships with land. This essay grapples with the language, agenda, and social mindset of conservation, especially with regard to the Americas. I look to thinkers like Timothy Morton and Macarena Gómez-Barris whose research employs feminist and decolonial frameworks to critique colonial gestures. Ultimately, conservation rhetoric capitalizes on the uncertainty of our global state and fate of future generations. It is imperative that settlers look critically at our intentions to domesticate land and at the historical marginalization and displacement of the indigenous communities who know it best and persevere as sovereign heirs.
Work Dates (display):
2020
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Sarah McCormick (American, born ca. 1994)
Work Creator gender:
female
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Work Creator notes (display):
Written thesis: https://scholar.col
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
MFA 2020, Art and Art History
Work Creator memberOf:
Sculpture and Post-Studio Practices student, Art and Art History, CU Boulder
Work Worktype:
installations (visual works)
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sound installations
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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Work Measurements (display):
running time: 00:02:06
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
University of Colorado, Department of Art and Art History
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Boulder, Colorado
Image Rights (display):
© Sarah McCormick
Work Rights (display):
© Sarah McCormick
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
Subcollection:
Art and Art History Student Work Archive
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