2013 Art Show
Police States, Prison Nations
November 13-15, 2013
Stamm, Templeton Student Center
Anna Daggett
Kristin Giordano
Malcolm Hecht
Lesedi Khabele-Stevens
Julie Perini
The Ray Warren Symposium Art Exhibition investigates issues of race and ethnicity as they intersect with the prison system, law enforcement, immigration and deportation, and other dimensions of the carceral state. Reflecting on this year’s selections, many works draw on a vocabulary of self-portraiture and documentation, curiously turning this system of surveillance back onto itself. The viewer is able to witness the effect of surveillance and profiling on identity – from the perspective of the observed and the observing,
the privileged and the disenfranchised, the subjective and the objective.
Several immensely personal works draw attention to the trauma often caused by the carceral state. Further, they address the fact that racial and ethnic minorities are systematically made to be its victims. These works express a compelling need for reformation. By including a broad spectrum of media, views, and conceptual content, it is our intent to initiate a dialogue and underscore the anxiety accompanying current systems
of law enforcement both in the U.S. and abroad.
Co-Curators:
Em Young, ‘14
Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies is located in Miller Center on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 63
email rwchairs@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7378
fax 503-768-7379
Director: Kimberly Brodkin
Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 63
Portland OR 97219