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Jaya Semara
No full textThis lecture on Jaya Semara Indonesian Gamelan (musical work), was recorded in November 2023. The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the First-Year Studies program. This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to the liberal arts, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945.
The lecturer, Sonja Downing, is an ethnomusicologist and a member of the Musicology Department. Her research interests include Balinese gamelan music and dance, traditional music pedagogy, the intersection of gender and performance, and ecomusicology. Her book Gamelan Girls: Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles explores socio-musical and pedagogical changes due to the recent emergence of all-girls and mixed gender children’s traditional gamelan music ensembles in Bali, Indonesia
The Multifaceted Woman
No full textMaterials: Video Still
Dimensions: Variable
Student Advisor: John Shimon, Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1004/thumbnail.jp
IN THE SINK
No full textMaterial: Pencil and Charcoal on Cotton Paper
Dimensions: 273 X 210 mm
Projects Advisor: Tony Gerald Conrad, John A. Shimon, Benjamin Rinehart
Year of Graduation: 2023
Sink:
A girl trapped in the sink allows herself to drown, refusing to swim or stand at the bottom to breathe. Instead, she indulges in appreciating her reflection and imagines herself happily soaring through the air.
Her left hand, halfway submerged, remains above the waterline, acknowledging the presence of air.
Yet, she willingly embraces drowning in her fantasies rather than confronting the harsh and inescapable reality.https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1009/thumbnail.jp
Ghost dance
No full textMaterials: Printmaking (Inkjet)
Dimensions: 17 X 22 inches
Project Advisor: Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1015/thumbnail.jp
Colorful World, Still 3
No full textMaterials: video still
Dimensions: 1920 x 1080 px
Student Advisor: Benjamin D. Rinehart
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1019/thumbnail.jp
Natural Wonder
No full textMaterials: Wood and photographs
Dimensions: Variable
Project Advisor: Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1032/thumbnail.jp
Comparative Studies of Cross-Cultural Poetics: Robin Coste Lewis and Timothy Yu
Get PDFMy use of the term cross-cultural refers to poetry that arises from cultures and ideologies other than the hegemonic ones, which in this paper means African American poet Robin Coste Lewis’s 79-page long narrative poem “Voyage of the Sable Venus,” and Asian American poet Timothy Yu’s collection of parody poems—100 Chinese Silences. Inspired by Jahan Ramazani’s book about transnational poetics, this paper aims to challenge a mononationalist way of reading cross-cultural poetry by suggesting new approaches to do so. A mononationalist way of reading cross-cultural poetry has been influenced by the residues of a literary paradigm that assumes the binary of British and American literatures and upholds the accompanying white-centric values. The danger of a mononationalist perspective lies in a less-fluid reading of all literature and dismissing cross-cultural poetry’s agencies to represent themselves. Through self-theorizing frameworks and “reverse discourse,” Robin Coste Lewis redirects language and gaze to her metaphorical art museum to appreciate black beauty in ways different from the beauty standards normalized by Western art constructions. Similarly, Timothy Yu’s parody poems of Billy Collins’s orientalism-saturated poems ask for a more nuanced context to understand the discourse of silence and Chinese American voices. This paper compares and contrasts Lewis’s and Yu’s approaches to recontextualizing language and discovering fluid ways of questioning preexisting constructions. Through such comparison, I can better appreciate poetry’s power as a form of resistance. Poetry builds kinship and allows “imaginative citizens” to live in worlds without borders where residues of violence are exposed
Natural Wonder: Exhibition View
No full textMaterials: Wood and photographs
Dimensions: Variable
Project Advisor: Rob Neilson
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2023/1037/thumbnail.jp