{"id":5711,"date":"2023-02-03T15:57:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/?page_id=5711"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:20:23","slug":"build-on-this-gesture-peter-bonde-becker-nelson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/build-on-this-gesture-peter-bonde-becker-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Bonde Becker Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5712\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/build-on-this-gesture-peter-bonde-becker-nelson\/whitenessatwork_darkroom-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/WhitenessAtWork_DarkRoom-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1440\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WhitenessAtWork_DarkRoom\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/WhitenessAtWork_DarkRoom-2-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5712\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/WhitenessAtWork_DarkRoom-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Peter Bonde Becker Nelson<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Content Notice<\/strong>: This video references the history of slavery, the forcible removal of Indigenous peoples from their land, and racialized police brutality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peter Bonde Becker Nelson\u2019s work draws from the personal narratives of friends and family to critically examine the nuances of race, gender roles, relationships, aging, and loss. His new stop motion animated film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whiteness at Work,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> traces the memories and critical moments that inform the main character\u2019s understanding of whiteness. The film premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February 2023. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Build on this Gesture<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Nelson displays the protagonist puppet within the miniature living room set. A nearby video installation plays cut and extended scenes. Curator Mike Curran notes in his exhibition catalog essay, \u201cThis adapted iteration of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whiteness at Work<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exposes the artifice of stop motion to center a more latent constructedness: the way we maintain white supremacy by talking our way around it. With Nelson\u2019s latest project, sitting with discomfort is the point.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/files\/2023\/02\/BuildonthisGesture-catalog.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about Nelson\u2019s work in Curran\u2019s full essay on page 13 of the exhibition catalog.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/build-on-this-gesture-qr\/\">\u2190 Back to all artists<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Bonde Becker Nelson Content Notice: This video references the history of slavery, the forcible removal of Indigenous peoples from their land, and racialized police brutality. 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