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The Disobedient Body
Get PDFThe body has historically been the site of societal control, discipline and political resistance in the West. In our current attention economy, an “ideal” body is not only a source of social capital. In addition, striving for, obtaining and maintaining an ideal body seems to have become a virtue.
Haley Morris-Cafiero uses her photography as a form of activism in the struggle against discrimination and social invisibility. The exhibition invites us to contemplate how our societal norms construct and affect the way in which we see and ignore not only certain people, but the actions directed at them
Staring Back: A Response to Body Shamers in Haley Morris-Cafiero’s Self-Portraiture
Get PDFIn 2010, Memphis-based artist Haley Morris-Cafiero set out on a global photographic project entitled Wait Watchers (2010-2015), a series of self-portraits that explore the issue of body shaming. Within these works Morris-Cafiero performs the role of a vacationer, dressing in locale-appropriate attire and striking classic tourist poses. Nothing about her fashion or demeanor would strike many as unusual, but captured within the larger shot are onlookers, unaware of being photographed, who become characters in her performance as they react to her appearance. Though repeatedly capturing looks of disgust, contempt and ridicule, Morris-Cafiero does not claim to know the thoughts of passersby. She finds proof of viewers’ perceptions in hostile online comments posted to her work. Utilizing these comments Morris-Cafiero created a second performance-based series, In the Time of Trump (2015-present), in which she photographs herself adopting the role of the online trolls in order to subvert their gaze, strip the perception of online anonymity, and to re-present their words to the world. Exploring the intersection of fat studies and disability studies, this paper locates Morris-Cafiero’s two series within the framework of Tobin Siebers’ concept of disability aesthetics. Siebers argues to broaden our definition of aesthetics to encompass new conceptions of beauty and to recognize that our aesthetic response is based on an embodied experience. This paper argues that Morris-Cafiero’s work successfully embraces unique corporeality and challenges socio-cultural distinctions of the outsider‘ body
The Bully Pulpit
Get PDFThe Bully Pulpit utilises self-portrait photography to explore non-textual responses to cyberbullying occurring on social media platforms and other websites. Working with constructed photographic methods, Morris-Cafiero costumed herself to look like 25 of her cyberbullies and inserted their bullying comment in the image. Due to the content delivery network, a system of computers that connects users to current and historical internet content, images exist on the internet indefinitely. By exploring a non-textual response to bullies, this act of anti-bullying cannot be removed or edited by the bully.The research began in 2013 with the collection of bullying comments on mainstream and social media posts, emails and blogs. From 2013 to 2016, over 4,300 messages were collected from a variety of sources. In 2018, a pool of 60 bullies were identified for further investigation. The final group of 25 bullies were chosen to create a pool that represents bullies from a wide range of locations, age (13-70), perspective of bullying comment and visual data available on their social media profiles.This research contributes new knowledge to photographic practices that use social media as a tool for production and cyberbullying in relation to body politics and feminist discourses of female beauty standards. <br/
The Bully Pulpit
Get PDFThe Bully Pulpit utilises self-portrait photography to explore non-textual responses to cyberbullying occurring on social media platforms and other websites. Working with constructed photographic methods, Morris-Cafiero costumed herself to look like 25 of her cyberbullies and inserted their bullying comment in the image. Due to the content delivery network, a system of computers that connects users to current and historical internet content, images exist on the internet indefinitely. By exploring a non-textual response to bullies, this act of anti-bullying cannot be removed or edited by the bully.The research began in 2013 with the collection of bullying comments on mainstream and social media posts, emails and blogs. From 2013 to 2016, over 4,300 messages were collected from a variety of sources. In 2018, a pool of 60 bullies were identified for further investigation. The final group of 25 bullies were chosen to create a pool that represents bullies from a wide range of locations, age (13-70), perspective of bullying comment and visual data available on their social media profiles.This research contributes new knowledge to photographic practices that use social media as a tool for production and cyberbullying in relation to body politics and feminist discourses of female beauty standards. <br/
The Bully Pulpit
No full textThe Bully Pulpit utilises self-portrait photography to explore non-textual responses to cyberbullying occurring on social media platforms and other websites. Working with constructed photographic methods, Morris-Cafiero costumed herself to look like 25 of her cyberbullies and inserted their bullying comment in the image. Due to the content delivery network, a system of computers that connects users to current and historical internet content, images exist on the internet indefinitely. By exploring a non-textual response to bullies, this act of anti-bullying cannot be removed or edited by the bully.The research began in 2013 with the collection of bullying comments on mainstream and social media posts, emails and blogs. From 2013 to 2016, over 4,300 messages were collected from a variety of sources. In 2018, a pool of 60 bullies were identified for further investigation. The final group of 25 bullies were chosen to create a pool that represents bullies from a wide range of locations, age (13-70), perspective of bullying comment and visual data available on their social media profiles.This research contributes new knowledge to photographic practices that use social media as a tool for production and cyberbullying in relation to body politics and feminist discourses of female beauty standards. <br/
The Watchers
No full textWait Watchers is a photographic series that explores how overweight people are viewed in public. Using self-portraiture and performance, Morris-Cafiero depicts the gaze of strangers as they pass by her in public while she performs normal activities in the scene. The exact cause of the strangers’ stare and what they are thinking is not known. This research contributes to the topic of nonverbal communication and the view society has on body image.The photographs were created from 2010 to 2015 in international locations (Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Peru, Spain, United States) to explore nonverbal communication of body image expectations that occurs in a variety of cultures and geographies. The photographs were not edited in postproduction software.A small set of images from the series were published online in 2013 and went “viral” intermittently from 2013 to 2015 garnering a readership of over 250 million people. <br/
An Hour with Alex Haley - Part 2 of 2
No full textAn Hour with Alex Haley, chaired by Ian Fraser. American author Alex Haley talks about the genesis of his novel "Roots" and answers questions. (2 tapes.) Radio New Zealand recording. Writers and Readers Week, Wellington, 15/03/1990
An Hour with Alex Haley - Part 1 of 2
No full textAn Hour with Alex Haley, chaired by Ian Fraser. American author Alex Haley talks about the genesis of his novel "Roots" and answers questions. (2 tapes.) Radio New Zealand recording. Writers and Readers Week, Wellington, 15/03/1990
Alex Haley, author
No full textExamines the life and achievements of Alex Haley, celebrated author of "Roots" and other writings, discussing his life and literary career, as well as his obsession with researching his family's history
Alex Haley, A History of the Negro in America, 1968
No full textAlex Haley was an American author and writer of several critically acclaimed novels and biographies including Malcolm X, and Roots: The Saga of an American Family. A fervent scholar of African American history, Haley here gives a presentation centered around his genealogical research in preparation for writing Roots. Referring to African Americans as “the only unwilling immigrants” to the United States, Haley traces his own roots back to the slave ship that brought his ancestors to the New World, detailing European first impressions of African culture, and vice versa.https://commons.emich.edu/lectures_presentations/1002/thumbnail.jp
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