“Ballot Box of Two Stances”
My intervention is focused on the goal of creating communication between men and women regarding abortion rights. In the pictures below, participants were handed a slip with a question witten inside along with a pledge. Then I explain to the participants that they must read the questions to themselves without telling me and then place the slips into a box that has one side For Complacency and the other For Woman. Lastly, I asked how they felt about the question without telling me what the question was. The purpose of this was to see if it caused a change in participants' perspectives or thoughts by making them answer this question internally. Some of the participants' responses to the question varied and just like my research, the responses were from different parts of the spectrum.
I chose this subject because abortion rights are an essential right to all women whether young or old. With Roe v. Wade overturned, women have lost access to an important and life changing process that helps women. To add, I chose this subject because I was asked a question about what I would do in a situation where my partner wanted an abortion.
I did not have any inspiration from any artist, but I was inspired by voting. The problem with people nowadays is that they don't even think when they vote. This is what led me to create the slips of paper with a pledge and turn my shoe box into a ballot box.
My shoe box used as a ballot box.
Quotes:
Q1: "Another important goal of activist art is to create awareness of existing political and social issues. When the public is looking away from suffering that could be prevented or does not want to be confronted with it, activist art often creates a dialogue and forces people to think about these problems"
R1: This feel especially true as we are in a time where we are suffering and people are looking away from the issues instead of thinking and bringing awareness to these issues.
Q2: "But having a goal in mind allows us to orient ourselves in the right direction".
This makes me think of my intervention. I had a goal which I felt like it put me in the right direction. Having a goal has really helped decide how to go about my intervention. Also, having a goal that is specific but ambiguous allows room for various avenues to try with the goal in mind.
Q3: “The most radical art is not protest art but works that take us to another place, envision a different way of seeing, perhaps a different way of feeling.”
R3: This perfectly fits with my intervention. With it and the question I asked, I got to see how it altered people's perception of what they were doing, how, and how much or less they did.
Q4: “We seem to spend much more of our time and attention focusing
on what keeps us down instead of looking up.”
R4: This is true with the current time. There is so much going wrong and people spend a lot of time focusing so much in a negative manner that we ignore the alternatives and the positive aspects that can be explored.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49240582
https://www.cato.org/commentary/complicated-place-men-abortion-debates
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