HOW TO RUST
Price: $250.00 Code: 2576 |
Directed by Julia Yezbick
2016, 25 minutes
Purchase: $250 | Classroom rental: $99
2016, 25 minutes
Purchase: $250 | Classroom rental: $99
A postindustrial fable told in iron, rocks, and wood.
Detroit artist Olayami Dabls’ installation “Iron Teaching Rocks How to Rust” is a metaphor for the forced assimilation of Africans to European culture and language. Here Dabls’ bricolage of the postindustrial landscape becomes a commentary on the half-life of Fordism, where the relationship between cultural production, history, and place is recast, revealing larger truths about how we mythologize a former glory and shape an imagined future.
Subjects & Collections
2018 African-American Studies Art History Cinema Studies Sensory Ethnography Lab Anthropology Directed by Women