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2023-03-29 - 2023-03-30 -- BOR March Meeting Minutes
No full textThe South Dakota Board of Regents met on March 29 - 30, 2023 at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota with the following members present: John Bastian; Brock Brown; Jeff Partridge; Tim Rave; Joan Wink; Jim Thares, Vice President; Pam Roberts, President
Commencement Program
No full text2023 Spring Commencement Program of Dakota State University at Madison, South Dakota
Erased nature encyclopedia volume 9
No full text“Erased Nature Encyclopedia Volume 9 was created from volume nine of the Audubon Nature Encyclopedia, a twelve-volume set published in 1965. The alteration to the book comprises a near total erasure, by hand, of the contents. The only information remaining from the original text are structural elements—the page numbers and introductory letters to each of the alphabetized sections. The book functions as a space where erasure becomes a metaphorical gesture to consider the way in which climate change and historical racism intersect.
Altering this book functions on several levels. Changing the title of the book to “Nature” and erasing its entire contents creates a metaphor for the effects of human action on the environment. But this particular book also lent itself to creating a site for examining another erasure.
John Audubon, in honor of whose name this book is published, owned and sold enslaved people, a fact that until recently had been erased from popular consciousness. The reemergence of this history ignited debates concerning the fate of the legendary Audubon Society. This artwork brings the viewer face to face with the laborious and unnatural effort that the erasure of historical racism requires, asking them to consider it as an act of intentional misdirection rather than mere obliteration.
In an era wherein the history of slavery is being erased from school curricula, and the fact of ongoing climate catastrophe is actively ignored, this artwork serves as a reminder of the perils of willful ignorance and the erosion of collective wisdom.
