Vandalismlite™

VandalismLite™ The Contextualization of The Student as Trash : Censorship in Academic Space A Case Study of the Construction of “Opinion” versus “Policy” in the Art Department 1.

What space is reserved for student art?

There is a trench that exists between edict and the public demonstration of learning and experiment in academic space. This study seeks to uncover that trench cloaked in idle hallway pleasantry, and thus revealing a double standard for student exercise of authority in community space.

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This void can be contextualized through THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR STUDENT ART. This space exists merely as an illusion of student activation of space. The space represents a procedure of censorship while matched with a propaganda spectacle that would cry otherwise.

A visit to this space will immediately reveal the cold affect of indifference. The space lacks concern- vast emptiness in expansive space. This apathy is contagious as it overflows into exterior corridors and numbs The Scholar as they may exist as student or faculty within an academic art community.

The potential for the space lies in the netted hands of departmental housekeeping: catching quickly what they see fit to benefit their personal endeavors and tossing the rest. This discarded material becomes conspicuous, in the confines of the trench, as it grows in volume and salience.

The implications of such an irritable net is thus a distrust between parties and the silent trench war that comes to only one conclusion.

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THIS SPACE RESERVED FOR STUDENT ART is a fictional gatekeeper that stands in the trenches between student activation and departmental canon.