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 about racial identity to an exhibition, I immediately thought of my daily video practice, the Minute Movies and how one way to view it ias 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. I was also influenced and inspired by conversations with artists in my community who grapple with questions around the relationship between racial identity and artistic production: Mark Martinez, Sharita Towne, Betty Marin, Patricia Vázquez Gómez, Gia Goodrich, Gabe Flores, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Jodi Darby, Erin Yanke and more.

White Lady Diaries still image

press
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

Julie Perini is a filmmaker and artist in Portland, Oregon.