[OT] WHITNEY BIANNUAL

[Tionlee@xxxxxxx]

COULD SOME ONE PLEASE READ THIS AND TELL ME IF IT MAKES SENCE.
im entering the whitney biannual

Background information/bio

My early work concerns how it feels to be a disabled person in a world that 
perpetuates negative stereotypes about the disabled. Americans typically lack 
historical knowledge about disability in general, and misunderstand the 
numbers, the true magnitude, of disabled individuals. This mainstream attitude 
affects my everyday life: although highly visual in one sense (people notice me 
immediately), I also experience a sense of acute invisibility, in that people 
prefer to ignore or underestimate me. 

On the disc there are three examples of my earlier work. I would now like to

Tell you a little bit about each of the works.

1. Normal life. 

The work is about my relationship with a non-disabled woman and how her need 
for normalcy affected our relationship. It also speaks to the underlying need 
for all people to feel normal, even as it questions the concepts of normalcy.

2. 53,907,000 citizens
This work addresses the lack of knowledge about disabled people residing in 
the United States of America. Using data from the most recent census, I use a 
grid of blue dots to represent one hundred people. Twenty of these blue dots 
are surrounded by orange squares, to represent the fact that 20% of the U.S. 
population has some form of disability.

3. Which one of these men has epilepsy?
This work talks about how most disabilities are invisible. Unless people who 
have disabilities tell you that they are disabled, you may or may not ever 
know that they are disabled. This work also talks about stereotypes and the fact 
that most people think that disabled people are easily spotted.

Current info

My newer work is about how it feels to be seen and un-seen at the exact same 
time. Through the use of thoughts, logos, and short sayings placed on business 
cards, stickers, posters, and even t-shirts my work becomes both seen and 
un-seen. It is all around you, but it is barely noticed.
The files on the disc [hope 1, 2, 3, and 4] are examples of poster I 
designed. The posters contain thought, and these thoughts are the work of art. These 
thoughts can be put into many contexts, they can be reduced to the size of a 
business card [or even smaller] or they can be enlarged to the size of 
billboards, I can use a very readable font or I can use an unreadable font, and if 
necessary I can even transfer the works into brail or sound.

Proposal

What I propose is a work that will be seen and unseen at the exact same time. 
The work will consist of a sticker given out to people who go see the 
biannual, the work will be the sticker you give/put on people to prove that they paid 
to get into the biannual. The work will be both seen [everyone will be 
wearing it] and unseen [everyone will be wearing it] 

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