2020 Grad Show
2020 Grad Show

Brittany Maraneta

AUArts Grad Show Screen Shot 2020-05-04 at 5.50.12 PM

Media Arts

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Brittany Maraneta is an artist who is exploring language and the contrast of cultural communities. Maraneta 's works consists of text, installations, sound and performance. She often questions her identity and how her visual appearance of colour shapes who she is, or how she is perceived, Maraneta questions the idea of racism being consumed in the world with how we are portrayed through society and media. She usually explores the language being used to describe people of colour which brings her to question the use of identity through xenophobia, microaggressions, etc.

Walks of Racism Maraneta mapped out places where racism occurred with a GPS voice to give the idea of storytelling through your own voice and imagination. The GPS was the idea to be cold and robotic so that it could be anyone’s voice. Maraneta installs headphones to really emphasize the isolation and your imagination.
Xenophobia Xenophobia is a piece used with EL lights to emphasize the word. Working with culture and racism the LE lights spell out Xenophobia and it’s to be lit up in a dark space where the audience walks in and sees a constantly flicking piece. Maraneta wanted to explore the use of language and how words can really make an impact in your life. Showing just one word can mean anything but understanding the word can give you the true meaning.
The Following Companies Apologize The Following Companies Apologize, is about playing off the idea of racism within advertisements in media. Advertisements in media is constantly being played off of promoting their company and items but what companies sometimes miss is the hidden message they present. Maraneta creates this work to talk about the constant racist ads being released in media and how companies constantly apologize but in conclusion just go back to creating another racist ad.
Stereotypes Stereotypes is an installation idea where the audience is presenting to sit on a couch and face a TV. The TV plays a loop video, the loop shows cartoons, reality shows, TV shows, family movies; all these pieces were cut of just a single scene in each. The scene from the movies/shows are racist stereotypes that occur on the movie/show. This emphasizes that our favorite films are what teaches the world stereotypes are accepted when it shouldn’t be.
Not Your Story Not Your Story is an interactive sign that every time someone walks by NOT will lit up; without interaction, it will read “YOUR STORY” but once it senses a viewer, it will read “NOT YOUR STORY”. The idea of Not Your Story is to create an interaction connection with the audience, the audience will feel the pain that this sign gives off. The pain that people of colour go through every time someone says, “go back to your country.”

Perspective

Perspective is a series Maraneta creates in her undergrad of Alberta's University of the Arts. Maraneta creates works that discuss about racism and bring the audience a tour into what racism can look like. Each work is different perspective to describe racism through stereotypes, inner racism and microaggressions.

Perspective
Walks of Racism Maraneta mapped out places where racism occurred with a GPS voice to give the idea of storytelling through your own voice and imagination. The GPS was the idea to be cold and robotic so that it could be anyone’s voice. Maraneta installs headphones to really emphasize the isolation and your imagination.
Perspective AUArts Grad Show IMG_3494
Xenophobia Xenophobia is a piece used with EL lights to emphasize the word. Working with culture and racism the LE lights spell out Xenophobia and it’s to be lit up in a dark space where the audience walks in and sees a constantly flicking piece. Maraneta wanted to explore the use of language and how words can really make an impact in your life. Showing just one word can mean anything but understanding the word can give you the true meaning.
Perspective
The Following Companies Apologize The Following Companies Apologize, is about playing off the idea of racism within advertisements in media. Advertisements in media is constantly being played off of promoting their company and items but what companies sometimes miss is the hidden message they present. Maraneta creates this work to talk about the constant racist ads being released in media and how companies constantly apologize but in conclusion just go back to creating another racist ad.
Perspective
Stereotypes Stereotypes is an installation idea where the audience is presenting to sit on a couch and face a TV. The TV plays a loop video, the loop shows cartoons, reality shows, TV shows, family movies; all these pieces were cut of just a single scene in each. The scene from the movies/shows are racist stereotypes that occur on the movie/show. This emphasizes that our favorite films are what teaches the world stereotypes are accepted when it shouldn’t be.
Perspective AUArts Grad Show IMG_4752
Not Your Story Not Your Story is an interactive sign that every time someone walks by NOT will lit up; without interaction, it will read “YOUR STORY” but once it senses a viewer, it will read “NOT YOUR STORY”. The idea of Not Your Story is to create an interaction connection with the audience, the audience will feel the pain that this sign gives off. The pain that people of colour go through every time someone says, “go back to your country.”