Before and After Image

Flaxman Library Exhibit - 6th Floor Sharp
Wednesday, December 23
Detail from work by Ali Kelling.

Decolonizing Time Travel / Fall 2020
Instructors / Josh Rios & Nicole Marroquin

For this exercise participants engaged images found in digital or personal archives/collections through a set of creative of prompts:
Respond to the image poetically
Respond to the image historically
Describing how the image sounds
Describe what happened before the image
Describe what happened after the image
Write a counter image
Write a narrative based on the image
Describe what the image wants
Describe why the image exists
Create dialog within the image
Make what is missing present
Write the image a letter
Combine any of these prompts
Make up a new prompt

Click here to view the PDF packet of work.

Participants:
Sydney Anderson
Beatriz Beckford
Elise Butterfield
Jayleen Del Valle
Marisa Ferreira
Katie Giritlian
Ali Kelling
Amélie Pascutto
Clau Rocha
Rain Shanks
Maco Soto
Kim Upstill
Yiran Zhang