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elin o’Hara slavick
As an American traveller, my vision is informed by our country's history and military presence and use of force all over the world. While beauty and difference strike me, taking lots of photographs wherever I go, I am uncomfortable voluntarily participating in the glut of imagery that maintains the status quo. After collaborating with anthropologist Catherine Lutz on the forthcoming book, Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, (Beacon Press, Fall, 2001), I decided to create a critical context for my “travel slides”, which resulted in a heterotopic space, through juxtaposition and dislocated captions. For CEPA’s Paradise project, I will create a series of fourteen Travel posters for The Market Arcade windows that challenge, critique, play with and talk back to ideals of exotic encounter, vacation, adventure, touristic desire, cultural tourism, colonialism and representation.
elin O’Hara slavick is an emerging conceptual artist who uses photography and mixed-media installations which investigate the politics of globalization. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. slavick resides in Chapel Hill, NC where she is Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina.
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