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This is My Family: An Erasure

Rehman, Sadia
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4725-289X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492399220029598

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2017, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
Many of my childhood memories are centered around my family’s twenty-seven-inch Sony Trinitron television, which was cornered in a living room with orange walls and orange carpet in Queens, New York. Watching TV exercised my ability to subconsciously process images that were significantly different from one to the next. It is from watching TV daily that my mom learned English from The Days of Our Lives, that my dad learned Western comedy from The Jeffersons and Saturday Night Live, that my older siblings learned how to rebel by watching late-night music videos and that I learned my alphabets from Sesame Street. Along with steamy soap operas, science-fiction cartoons, and slapstick sitcoms, we watched campy Bollywood movies and instructive Islamic sermons. This early exposure to disparate moving images informs the way I select the content for my work. I use a range of sacred, mundane, and profane images that I have collected over the years. My archive consists of family photographs taken in the United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, found images, audio, film and video clips. I engage in the processes of dismantling, layering and reassembling to examine questions of language and storytelling, original and copy, normative and deviant.
Suzanne Silver (Advisor)
Dani Leventhal (Committee Member)
Ann Hamilton (Committee Member)
37 p.
Aesthetics; African American Studies; African Americans; American History; Architectural; Architecture; Art History; Asian American Studies; Asian Studies; Black History; Black Studies; Film Studies; Fine Arts; Gender; Gender Studies; Geography; History; Individual and Family Studies; Islamic Studies; Performing Arts; South Asian Studies; Womens Studies; World History
markmaking; cutouts; collage; stencil; family; photographs; ritual object; intimate object; transliteration; English; Urdu; installations; photographs; video; barrier; body; race; gender; sexuality; queer; performance; language; Muslim; Pakistani

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  • Rehman, S. (2017). This is My Family: An Erasure [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492399220029598

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Rehman, Sadia. This is My Family: An Erasure . 2017. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492399220029598.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Rehman, Sadia. "This is My Family: An Erasure ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492399220029598

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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