crude education
1908-ongoing
video (Digitized VHS tape from the artist’s family archives, documenting first graders' inaugural school day in 1996 in an American-built suburb on the northern outskirts of Isfahan, Iran. Pathé Newsreel from National Archives Catalog, capturing British Petroleum’s first prosperous oil strike in the Middle East in Masjed Soleyman at the foothills of Zagros Mountains in 1908)
TRT: 12 minutes
crude education is an archival research project that draws from British Petroleum's historical documents and the artist's family records to study the relationship between resource imperialism, political ideology, and education, proposing an alternative portrait of Petro-subjects.
The video is part of an ongoing multi-media project that began during the artist's Fellowship at the Whitney Independent Study Program which will continue to expand and evolve.
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