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certified copy is an essay club run by Anna Banerjee and Kate Snyder. a space to communally figure out how to move forward with more intention and faith in a thoughtful future.
certified copy was named after Abbas Kiarostami’s film of the same name. Kiarostami’s Certified Copy is focused on the seemingly ever-recontextualizing nature of the relationship between its two protagonists, and the way in which different frames of viewing affect its comprehension. Here, a certified copy is a lens: what if the copy is just as true as its origin?
We’re constantly constructing and reconstructing digitality and physicality, both playing a part in originating and copying. We aim to provide a physical component to the club by mailing copies of the essays as well as relevant questions, documents, and ephemera to anyone who requests them.
certified copy
constructed out of archival queer documents, manipulated and collaged to create two pieces.
first:
all illustration archival manipulations, including imaged text. poetry original.
second:
reconstructed out of a questionnaire sourced from RFD, a reader-written iowan magazine focusing on queer issues, art, and interests
website constructed as part of final / senior project. web 1.0 discursive space surrounding solange’s when i get home and cauleen smith’s sojourner, including conversational dialog and original net-essays. view full website here.
collaboration with jenelle stafford.