Morgan Green

Sculpting Spaces

DJ Spooky + Swahili Conception of Time & Space (via Nikitah Okembe-RA Imani, Ph.D), attempted synthesis

Sculpting Spaces

Depicted, top to bottom: Senga Nengudi, RSVP 1975-1980, static and activated; Senga Nengudi, R.S.V.P. Reverie – Embrace, 2016; Louise Bourgeois; Untitled, 2004

fractal/nipple

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Visual response to Week 1-2, MFA 6490-002, Sculpting Space, Design, Architecture & Sacred Systems in Africa and the Diaspora, prof. D Denenge Duyst-Akpem 

 Two oblique studies and one selective (mis)tracing of Lukasa Boards as described/depicted in "Luba Art and the Making of History" by Roberts & Roberts

“the psyche would be an epistemic grid through which the body is known”

I’m a Los Angeles-based artist. I’ve been living in LA for over six years and my family’s roots here go back about a century. My artist’s statement says that my work “aims to revive smothered nuances and disrupt essentialisms.” In the wake of recent events, however, I would like to revise my aim to the naive and incalculable goal of reducing the international body count over the next several years. I don’t know how my old goal and my new one relate to one another. I don’t know if poetry has the capacity to reduce violence. At some point I think I will have to solidify my suspicion that it does into a belief, so that I can write without restraint.

My practice is interdisciplinary, although my primary medium has been film and video for the past nine years or so. I received a bachelor’s degree in film production in 2012, which I started at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and finished at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. This education means that I privilege Aristotelian narrative in the way I perceive and create, whether or not I desire to do so. It also means that I consciously consider issues of audience and capital when I create work. My films tend to deal with the ways in which bodily transformations can disrupt signifiers of sex and gender.

Text has become increasingly prominent in my work to the point where I sometimes leave images behind entirely. I make text pieces, poems, poem-films, and poetic essays, and this year I have also been working with poetry as performance. Part of the goal of the work I do with text is to feel limits of language. I continue to work in visual media so that I might transcend those limits.  I am interested in the parallels between bodily and linguistic signifiers that bolster essentialisms. 

i have two memories of my first time  eating guacamole

i hated it so mushy

my whole body is filled with brains

i swear i’ve checked i’m oozing sausage

“i am potatoed into the rim of you,” you considered that communication indirect

so i’ll explain

what i meant was

"the middle of the center of the middle of the center" by morgan green small book made for maggie on 9/21/2016