List of Objects

Fake bank notes
A snakeskin purse
Pink fluffy handcuffs
A book on Picasso published by Taschen
A book on Black Women by Taschen
A leather tie
A white plastic torso of a woman
A human or dog jaw bone
A piece of weathered wood with ruts
An issue of LIFE magazine from November 28, 1938
Three mystical drawings
Two Mexican magazines “En El Olvido”
A Silcone breast plate
A small box of earth
A butterfly specimen
A mini teddy bear
A strap-on dildo
A turd with glitter
A human skull
A fragment of a photograph of a naked woman with a camera
Various small sex magazines
A bullet and a personal letter
An ice-box
A handbag

Assemblages and their discussion by the students:

Assemblage 1: Primeval human instinct; phallic; desire; incarceration; violence; money; power; colonial traps; Freundian anal phase.

Assemblage 2: Conceptual weight; magazines with “heavy” content; inflammatory; innocence and childhood; relationships between the magazines.

Assemblage 3: Cycles of life transformation; divine aesthetic experience; post-gender; sustaining

Assemblage 4: Fantasy of violence; negative; madness; history; past.