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Guns, Art-making, and Truth

Spring 2024: Wednesday 3 pm - 6 pm

Walton Center for Planetary Health, room 409 (Session C)

What is the relationship between guns (a piece of technology), the culture(s) that has manifested around guns, and the realities of gun violence in the U.S.?

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What is the historical arc of U.S. gun culture?

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How can art-based experiences complicate individual understanding of the role of guns and the impact of gun violence in the US?

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How can humanities and art-based actions for social justice express this understanding?

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What are the roles, responsibilities, and responses of the artist-researcher within the debate between gun advocacy and gun abolition?

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What is a "Fourth Responder"? What do they do? Why do they do what they do? How does one become one?

What is the relationship between guns (a piece of technology), the culture(s) that has manifested around guns, and the realities of gun violence in the U.S.?

In this lab, contributors (we won’t use the words teacher or students) will all participate in an immersive, creative experience about gun culture in America. Contributors will receive and discuss the most recent data and analysis on gun ownership, victim accounts, and community-based agreements. With this information, contributors will seek deeper understanding of the values held by the gun-owning community, gun law supporters and proponents, and anti-Second Amendment activists alongside the embodied experiences of victims of gun violence through the “fourth responder” approach. By bringing critical lenses to and participating in art that responds to a painful and divisive dimension of contemporary U.S. society, contributors create the capacity to open dialogue. This lab will unfold in three essential parts: 1) delivery, sharing and discussion of information, 2) arts-based research including creative responses and performances to the collected information, and 3) public installation/performance of the final creative work, and reflection on the impact. Contributors will gain an understanding of the range of public reception and support for future community-led roles and responsibilities, as we seek to define a broad, democratic culture that allows for gun ownership and the absence of guns.

Impact Outcomes

Students will share their findings with the general public in a format of their choosing. Check this page at the end of the semester for updates!

Guns, Art-making, and Truth in the News

Enrollment Information

Spring 2024: Wednesday 3 pm - 6 pm

WCPH 409, Session C

Humanities Lab HUL 494, 598
English  ENG 494, 598
Music Performance MUP 494, 598

 

Instructional Team

Seize the Moment


This Lab is presented through Seize the Moment, an initiative of Leonardo, the Humanities Lab, and the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University. In an alarming syndemic of intersecting crises—the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice and accompanying civil unrest, and cascading environmental hazards—Seize the Moment addresses the grand challenges of the day through transdisciplinary arts, science, technological, and humanities collaborations in research, pedagogy, and public engagement. To learn more, visit our website at http://bit.ly/SeizetheMomentASU.


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