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As part of the artist’s 2019 solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Stephanie Syjuco researched images as photographic documentation of a Filipino village created for the 1904 World’s Fair. According to the artist, Filipino culture was displayed for the American public via a living “human zoo,” filled with 1,200 imported “natives” performing dances and rituals, serving as an ethnographic pedagogical tool for justifying racial hierarchy and imperialism.
As an “act of defiance,” Syjuco physically blocks the images in the archives of the Missouri Historical Society with her hands.

SEC. 01
DECONSTRUCTING RACE
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DISRUPTING MASTER NARRATIVES
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DECOLONIZING THE ARCHIVES




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ENDING SILENCES
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DENYING HISTORICAL SURVEILLANCE
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WRITING COUNTERHISTORIES




SEC. 07
BUILDING PROJECTS OF FREEDOM
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