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Aesthetics of Teenage Life
Jill Frank
Saturday, March 21 - 10:00AM to 11:00AM
Georgia 7
This talk follows a body of work I have developed over many years, using portraiture and multi-channel video installations to examine everyday youth rituals. I believe these rituals are small stages where the world rehearses itself and where social power dynamics become visible. Georgia is the backdrop for most of these photographs and videos, it is a concentrated microcosm of the United States, with deeply conservative and deeply progressive communities. I try to understand some of these complexities by looking closely at youth, not through sensational narratives, but through everyday rituals that shape belonging.This ongoing project is a constellation of self-contained photographic and moving-image studies, each grounded in a specific youth activity and made in different parts of the region. Each study is developed through research and engagement, and repeated negotiation of access. My goal is to build a multi-year portrait of adolescence that functions as a form of cultural record and complicates narratives about this part of the country.
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