Year: 2026
Medium: Single-channel digital video, color, sound, 2 minutes, 41 seconds
Description:
Notes on Appropriation, 3/30/2026
Appropriation serves as a weapon from the periphery. It reconstitutes the imperceivable into palatable symbols, legible to the center. To appropriate, remake, or emulate is to mend disparate registers. It stands as a junction of languages. The unrecognizable language embellishes itself with forms from the center, a new audience is reached and a new message surfaces. The formerly invisible inseminates the mass language, and is now gilded, plump with convention and understood by all with its initial substance still intact. It has been successfully smuggled in.
Medium: Single-channel digital video, color, sound, 2 minutes, 41 seconds
Description:
Notes on Appropriation, 3/30/2026
Appropriation serves as a weapon from the periphery. It reconstitutes the imperceivable into palatable symbols, legible to the center. To appropriate, remake, or emulate is to mend disparate registers. It stands as a junction of languages. The unrecognizable language embellishes itself with forms from the center, a new audience is reached and a new message surfaces. The formerly invisible inseminates the mass language, and is now gilded, plump with convention and understood by all with its initial substance still intact. It has been successfully smuggled in.
william cordova, Now’s the Time: Narratives of Southern Alchemy, p.162