You Who Looks, May Not See 2008
Manif d’Art 4, Musee National des Beaux-Arts, Quebec City,
Canada
Strange, that I recognized an estrangement with myself at
an early age. I would look at myself but who would look back? I became a foreigner.
In this textual reflection, I look to see how I have been looking to see me
in order to more deeply see you, with empathy, equanimity and reciprocity.
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Conflict, Mourning and Aesthetics, 2007
Shifter
11, New York, NY
Aesthetics, the philosophy of questioning the integrity of form,
offers brilliant tools for how to see, question, disassemble, reform, reframe,
speculate and unknow. Aesthetics does not distinguish in value between chaos
and order, form and formlessness, and as such can easily find its way around
and between the disruptions, internal and external, psychological and political,
of conflict.
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The Aesthetics of Legal Process, 2007
Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University
I encountered
the judicial system first as a citizen and then pursued a critical investigation
of it as an artist. My personal text and video archives of the aesthetic
investigation, titled The
Visceral Viewer and the Court,
is here mined to process, critique, and evaluate a critical relationship
to legal process.
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Race and Mediation, 2006
ADR Panel, Los Angeles Superior Court
By shifting and expanding the definition of racism from a single incident to
a larger cultural context, one could recognize that we each are inevitably at
risk of harming one another to maintain social comfort for ourselves.
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The
Prisoner's Dilemma: Artist In the Mirror, 2004
Straus
Institute of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University
Just as one may mistake one’s reflection for one’s true self
in the utopia of a mirror, an artist is prone to mistake
his/her expression assynonymous with his/her true identity.
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Mediation and Aesthetics, 2004
Conflict Studies: New Generation of Ideas, University of Massachusetts,
Boston, MA
How can we "see" our humanity behind our difference? This "seeing" lies
at the core of deeply recognizing difference as both same and other. This
recognition allows trust to take the place of fear, creating a space for
transforming dispute to creative resolution.
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The Politics of Religion, 2003
Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University
To
understand perceptions of religion we must also understand the politics
of perception. What does authentic mean when each "believer" has
his or her unique perception of the original? We each experience
anew, no matter who experienced it first. Authenticity is in the body of
the beholder.
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Quotes Reflecting Mediation (from
my personal library), 2003
Complied from the personal library of Dorit Cypis.
"What we must fight is fear and silence, and with them the spiritual isolation
they involve. What we must defend is dialogue and the universal communication
of (wo)men." –
Albert Camus
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