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Inside Out + Outside In (2022)

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Our students created this year’s exhibit in a moment of cautious venturing out. In New York City, spring is coming, and withdrawing, and coming back. We are now allowed to take our masks off in class, but many are keeping them on. We noticed that, in this moment, our work engages with the dynamics of inside and outside. 

How much of our internal realities can we, or should we, share externally through oral history processes? How can oral history help us to understand and to cross boundaries - political, social, material, linguistic? 

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On a pale blue background lower-case text reads, Nobody's Diary: An Artificially Intelligent DiaryNobody's Diary by Chris Pandza
A portrait of El Moro (José Bocourt Bocourt, 1930-2018) perched on the front porch of his handmade house in the Sierra del Rosario mountains of Los Tumbos, Cuba. Photograph by Vanessa K. Harper (2005).Honoring El Moro: A Cuban Collective Memory by Vanessa K. Harper
An off-white impression of the Western Illinois Correctional Center is imprinted upon a startling red background. Several of the prison buildings are shaped like Xs, stamped graphically over the land.(Love is) a bustling highway: Mutual aid across prison walls by Chalay Chalermkraivuth
A ruled notecard with I heard it before I ever saw it written on it in all caps, in pencil. A faint transparent image of a drawing of a pocket watch by Matt Sopron underlays the notecard.I Heard it Before I Ever Saw it: Tattooing and the US Prison System by Tamara Santibañez
A photograph of an Astoria, Queens sidewalk, lined with cars, trees, and leaves. Brick apartment buildings line the left portion of the photograph, with steps made of varying materials leading up to the front doors of each. A blue, lightly clouded sky contrasts the largely sparse trees, with one budding pink and green leaves.One Door Down: Profiles from a New York City Apartment Building During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Tyler Brady
With a small plastic bag in his hand, an old man wearing white shirt and black pants is walking on a cement path surrounded by trees and shrubberies on a sunlit day.Landbound by Pengyuan Hu
My parents pose for a picture on their wedding day, their arms linked together.Umubano mu Bantu: Love Among People by Ornella Baganizi
Watercolor image of an Asian teenager with long hair enjoying the breeze that is coming through the open window beside her.Microphones and Brushes—An Exercise in Radical Empathy by Sach Takayasu
An illustration of a caiman curling around a pink triangle, set against a deep purple background, containing the text Queer Florida Oral Histories. Illustration by Han Powell.Queer Florida: Southern Oral Histories by Han Powell
Mustard yellow backdrop with the text It’s not about me: An Oral History Memoir Solo Performance in black letters and a bird flying across the top.It's Not About Me by Kayleigh Stack
East Lake in Wuhan, photo by one of the interviewees, Keke, on April 8, 2020, the day the lockdown of Wuhan ended. It was the first day she could finally get out after the nearly 3-month lockdown. At that moment, she thought the whole pandemic would also soon be over. However, the pandemic lasted for over two more years and is still going on.The Two Years Stolen: Who Would I Be Without Covid-19? by Yiwen Li
An illustration of an orange tiled background with a brown woman’s left hand in the centre holding three blue handheld mirrors. Her nails are painted fuchsia pink. The left side mirror is a reflection of the woman showing her in the process of baking as she whisks batter in a bowl. The centre mirror shows her in a graduation cap and gown holding a degree. The right side mirror shows her sitting on a bed with a laptop on her lap. A white dog with black spots sits by her side. Two white labels with purple font are seen against the orange tiled background. One label is on the top of the left side mirror and says ‘Me’. The second label is towards the bottom right of the right side mirror and says ‘Curated Me’. Illustrated by Sneha Dasgupta.Reframing Archives - Individuals and Imaginative Inventories by Dharini Chand
New York and Rome in the 1960'sHai visto quante cose ti ho detto? (You see how many things I told you?) by Martina Lancia
A navy blue background with faded dark text running throughout, reading DATA, WEB, POPULAR. The top right corner reads: Towards a Practice of (Self) Reflective Listening). Below, in the center of an outlined human figure walking towards the sun, as their reflection follows them in the water. At the bottom of the image there is a quote: All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. - Toni MorrisonWhat Makes Hearing Possible? Towards a Practice of (Self)Reflective Listening by Sydney Mann
LEFT: MAN STANDS IN THE FOG IN KYIV, UKRAINE. RIGHT: SMOKE RISES FROM THE CREMATORIUM IN NYC, UNITED STATESTHIS IS NOT BEAUTIFUL, THIS IS SOCIAL INJUSTICE by Kyung-hee Kang
A photo of a sunrise or sunset, bright coral at the horizon, slate blue above. Trees and a house in the foreground.Procession by Bronte Gosper

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