Study finds Blood Cultures can screen for Dynastical Mutations in Popular Culture

Brush, Andrea

Study finds Blood Cultures can screen for Dynastical Mutations in Popular Culture

Persistent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10456/41638

Author(s)

Brush, Andrea

Date Issued

May 10, 2016

Abstract

Artist Statement: "Study finds Blood Cultures can screen for Dynastical Mutations in Popular Culture" examines the intersectionality of power dynamics both historically and through societal taste and preference in consumable culture with exclusivity and the heritability of cultural traits and cultural power. The dynamic of the Romanov bloodline and hemophilia acts as conceptual overlay between exclusivity driving malmutation through a narrowed gene pool. This narrowed gene pool is extended to personify the traits selected from previous generations that are necessary for the continued exclusivity of Eurocentric popular culture. Participation within popular culture is dependent on the cultural traits, power, capital, and values that have been individually inherited and passed down through familial lines. The sampling of popular culture and the juxtaposition of the fallen Romanovs are materialized through the wheatpastes that are absorbed into public conscience much like the traits themselves. These images are integrated with the documented performance of donating blood to an undetermined donor. Through the act of donating blood, a feat that would have potentially killed the Tsarevich, Brush removes a layer of her own physical Eurocentric traits and predetermined exclusive access. This body of work operates as a case study finding that from an evolutionary perspective, an exclusive species is a stagnant species. If species and culture is dominant traits and a ruling class, then societal traits are dependent on previous generations. Survival is contingent on evolution.

Major

Art: Studio Art

Honors

Art, 2016

First Reader(s)

Prince, Steve