Saya Woolfalk quotes
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“I gravitate towards the utopian potentials of digital space (post race, post gender, post human etc.), but understand that people live in real bodies that experience real consequences based on how they are gendered, sexed, raced and classed.”
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“As I currently explore things like augmented and virtual reality, I constantly bring us back to actual bodies in space, real dancers that have physical manifestations not just phantoms that exist in digital space.”
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“I started playing with digital technology early on in my work. I made digital collages with costumed figures using early versions of Photoshop in the 90s. I was trying to use the newly available digital technologies to combine real people and places with new imagined possibilities.”
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“I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not want to use my personal story or standard tropes of multiculturalism.”
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“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”
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“Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”
Source : Abraham Cowley, T. Sprat (1721). “Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings”, p.719
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Source : "Directing the Film". Book by Ed Sherman, 1976.
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Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.
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