Individual Presentation or Panel Title
How Do You Identify?
Abstract
This project is called “How Do You Identify?” I wanted to create this stop-motion animation as a means to satisfy my curiosity about gender. Because gender is so ingrained in society, I wanted to discover if people willingly identify in terms of their gender or sex, and if their self-identities are aligned with how, culturally, we might stereotype them. I asked dozens of people a single question – how do you identify? With only a permanent marker and a piece of white copier paper, the variety of the answers surprised me and shatters the assertions we hold about people based on their physical appearance and social expression. Most importantly, this project invites viewers to question the importance of gender and sex in terms of themselves. With this animation, I strive to impose three questions upon my audience: Who are you, what does that mean to anyone else, and what does that matter, anyway?
Location
Janney Lounge
Start Date
21-4-2012 1:30 PM
End Date
21-4-2012 2:20 PM
How Do You Identify?
Janney Lounge
This project is called “How Do You Identify?” I wanted to create this stop-motion animation as a means to satisfy my curiosity about gender. Because gender is so ingrained in society, I wanted to discover if people willingly identify in terms of their gender or sex, and if their self-identities are aligned with how, culturally, we might stereotype them. I asked dozens of people a single question – how do you identify? With only a permanent marker and a piece of white copier paper, the variety of the answers surprised me and shatters the assertions we hold about people based on their physical appearance and social expression. Most importantly, this project invites viewers to question the importance of gender and sex in terms of themselves. With this animation, I strive to impose three questions upon my audience: Who are you, what does that mean to anyone else, and what does that matter, anyway?