Perspective + Privilege is an interactive Multi-Media Installation that will give patrons the opportunity to see the places where Privilege, Other-ness, Alli-ship, and Oppression intersect. The experience is intended to be individual on one hand, but with an inescapable awareness of the whole, our place in it, and our effect on it.
The portraiture images are a collaboration of self-expression as captured through the lens of award-winning East German visual artist Cornelia “Connie” Kurtew, Co-directed with her wife Dalila Ali Rajah. This couple with such vastly different upbringings have a unique take on the ways intersectionality and privilege can create conflict and also illumination.
America is built on systems birthed out of colonialism and egregious violations of the bodies and land of Brown and Black people, yet there is a beauty to the idea of America. At the core of the exhibit is a critique of America, the beautiful yet to be realized idea, and the out-picturings of the festering wounds that need to be healed.
Dalila Ali Rajah is a Black bisexual woman whose family grew up in the deep segregated south. Cornelia Kurtew is a queer woman who grew up in East Germany under oppressive communist rule. These two very distinct perspectives color how they see the world, and have given them access to compassion, understanding and advocacy that would not have been possible without their interaction opening a window into another point of view.
Documentary is Co-Directed by: Cornelia Kurtew and Dalila Ali Rajah || DP/Visual Anthropologist: Stella Iman Dugall
The portraiture images are a collaboration of self-expression as captured through the lens of award-winning East German visual artist Cornelia “Connie” Kurtew, Co-directed with her wife Dalila Ali Rajah. This couple with such vastly different upbringings have a unique take on the ways intersectionality and privilege can create conflict and also illumination.
America is built on systems birthed out of colonialism and egregious violations of the bodies and land of Brown and Black people, yet there is a beauty to the idea of America. At the core of the exhibit is a critique of America, the beautiful yet to be realized idea, and the out-picturings of the festering wounds that need to be healed.
Dalila Ali Rajah is a Black bisexual woman whose family grew up in the deep segregated south. Cornelia Kurtew is a queer woman who grew up in East Germany under oppressive communist rule. These two very distinct perspectives color how they see the world, and have given them access to compassion, understanding and advocacy that would not have been possible without their interaction opening a window into another point of view.
Documentary is Co-Directed by: Cornelia Kurtew and Dalila Ali Rajah || DP/Visual Anthropologist: Stella Iman Dugall