The Student Body

The Student Body, 2021, 40 minutes, uses the the classroom rug, Lots of Dots, made by the U.S. company “Joy of Carpets” and designed for schools specializing in disciplinarian pedagogy, to chart the ways in which the formal abstraction of educational spaces, and the pedagogical tools used therein, are inextricably linked to the theoretical abstrac- tions of racial capitalism and settler colonialism. The video is comprised of original and found material, including original animations and live action sequences, as well as historical educational documents, art historical accounts of early modernism, representations of classrooms from popular culture, and archival footage of educational and psychological research conducted on children. The Student Body is an extension of the installation, Lots of Dots.