Maximalizing for Re-Identification
Documentary
How do we know one another? What processes underlie the non-conscious act of identification? Could we use clothing and film maximally, as sensuous mediators to disrupt and potentially reveal entrenched processes of identification in discourse? How might the affordances of clothing and film be used to mask visual signifiers of identity and activate a viewer’s body through textures, sound, colors?
Through multiple workshops that involve assembling participants who range in race, gender and age, Maximalizing for Re-Identification discusses issues of identification. Using various forms of costuming, and coverings to mask signifiers, it intends to activate a different mode of engagement in which participants use their own body, as it occupies space, to make sense of their own identity and others. These workshops have resulted in various short films and have taken place in multiple academic and community settings.
A collaboration with John Bruce, Diane Huang and Anh-Ton Tran.
