These video and text/performance works were produced out of a presentation and discussion at University of California, San Diego titled Deep Throat: Against Assimilation: Deception: The Value of Being Poorly Educated. This work touches on complications of understanding gender in relation to value systems of credentialing as a form of assimilation. As a counter strategy, deception was considered as a starting point for how to create livable strategies for dealing with how power works to intertwine institutional systems and individual emotional lives.
PLEASE SIT DOWN
MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE
OR DON’T
YOU SHOULD DO WHAT YOU CAME HERE FOR
WHATEVER THAT IS
The following is a cognitive flexibility
retraining exercise
STAND
OR SIT
BLINK YOUR EYES EVERY 3-4 SECONDS (2min)
COVER BOTH EYES WITH YOUR HANDS (3min)
UNCOVER ONE EYE AND OPEN IT
HOLD YOUR FINGER OUT IN FRONT OF YOU AND FOCUS ON YOUR THUMB MOVING TOWARDS AND AWAY SLOWLY FROM YOUR EYE (1min)
NOW SLOWLY COVER YOUR EYE AND UNCOVER YOUR OTHER EYE
HOLD YOUR FINGER OUT IN FRONT OF YOU AND FOCUS ON YOUR THUMB MOVING TOWARDS AND AWAY SLOWLY FROM YOUR EYE (1min)
COVER BOTH YOUR EYES AGAIN
KEEP THEM COVERED (2min)
OPEN YOUR EYES WHILE THEY ARE STILL COVERED (30sec)
SLOWLY MOVE YOUR HANDS AWAY FROM YOUR EYES
SLOWLY LOOK AT WHAT IS IN FRONT OF YOU
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