Kin-Net-Ticks

This installation explores the complexity of student experience that cannot be captured easily, such as students who hold multiple marginalizations due to race, gender, sexuality, ability, and nationality. It examines how identifying demographic information can feel perfunctory on the part of the university and is isolating or even dangerous to the student who feels they have to expose or fragment themselves to be seen, counted, or supported. My work examines how intersecting marginalizations are excluded, undervalued, and underserved in academia.Kin-Net-Ticks asks audiences to question who counts, how we count, and how that constitutes our conception of inclusion, diversity, and support.

Currently showing at the “Interconnected Learning Landscapes: the Evolution of Self and Society” exhibition at the Keller Collective Gallery.