Crying, 2017
Installation of 6 videos for Course Remains
Broadway Windows, 80 WSE Gallery
New York, NY
The show was a collaboration between Marlene McCarty and student artists participating in McCarty’s “VAP” class at NYU Steinhardt. The project grounded in a single line of type, spelled backwards and stretched across six windows wrapping the building’s corner, encourages the slowing down and reprocessing of critical perception. Excerpted from title track "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" of Gil Scott Heron’s 1971 album Pieces of Man the text reads: "The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things and see that there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown." From silence to voice to visual meaning, typography and image presentation are explored as vehicles of the artist’s voice.
Crying examines how our interdependent selves—past and present—shape us, influenced by external forces, politics, and personal experiences. This video series was documented over the course of a few weeks to reflect different phases of life.
