Colonial Color Pallete (CCP) 2015. Performance-Installation Produced as visiting artist/scholar Lafayette College, Easton, PA. CCP is a multi-media installation that includes sculpture, performance and photography. In 1885 the Crayola factory was founded in Easton Pennsylvania. This project investigates coloniality coming from the name of the colors. Each palette was colored by hand, using hundreds of crayola crayons. The project also investigates the changes of names of the crayolas and how they relate to speci!c socio-political and historical moments in the United States. Each color relates to a material that was extracted from the colonies, a colonized territory, a site of passage, and also the investigation of the body of the colonized as a material for exploitation. The piece which was performed last year in the 35th Anniversary of ARCO Madrid, also addresses the display of colonized bodies in human zoos, or ethnographic museums all across Europe.

 

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