Geneva Foster Gluck

MY MOTHER REVOLUTION

Presented as an image essay and astrological reading My Mother Revolution was a collaboration with my mother to archive her 35mm black and white negatives of living in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention.  As a young female photographer, I wanted to consider my mother’s images as that of a historian - the young female historian, to understand where her eyes and camera rested, absorbing and communicating the atmospheres of this moment.  My mother is also an astrologer by trade, so I also asked her to compare the astrological charts for the US during the 1968 American Presidential election to that of the 2016 election.  I was thinking about failed revolutions, other forms of knowledge, white supremacy, the future, stars, planets and the eye/I. 

 Photographs: Susan Foster O’terra

Set Design, Video Animation and Performance: Geneva Foster Gluck

 Supported by a Tucson Pima Arts Council, New Work Grant 2015.  Produced by Sugar Beast Circus.

Performed at: C-Cinco Arts Space, Tucson, AZ. 2015; Rhythm Industry, Tucson, AZ. 2015; Decolonizing the Stage, Arizona State University, Phoenix AZ. 2016.