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White Lady Diaries
video // 4 minutes & 49 seconds // 2013“Drawing on her daily ritual of making Minute Movies about her life, Perini slices up moments of recognizing her own white privilege, overlaying them with broader observations.” - Alicia Eler for Hyperallergic
White Lady Diaries
In 2012, when Gabe Flores of Portland’s Place Gallery invited me to contribute an artwork to an exhibition about racial identity, I thought of my daily video practice, the Minute Movies as a visual archive of a white life. At the time I was influenced by philosopher George Yancy’s Look! A white! Philosophical essays on whiteness and other theorists, historians, and thinkers writing about white supremacy and whiteness. White Lady Diaries shows video of myself in a new apartment, at a bookstore, at a library, all with text onscreen narrating my internal thoughts about unearned privilege I experience as a white-bodied person. The piece is slow, thoughtful, and holds uncomfortable truths.
2014: “Seeing Past Portland’s Whiteness” by Alicia Eler for Hyperallergic, March 24, 2014
selected screenings & exhibitions
2014: White Pride?, curated by Gabe Flores, Place Gallery, Portland, Oregon
thank you
Jodi Darby, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Gabe Flores, Patricia Vázquez Gómez, Gia Goodrich, Betty Marin, Mark Martinez, Sharita Towne, Erin Yanke