This exercise is designed to challenge each student's notion of representative identity. How does the notion of identity change as representative form overtakes and differentiates itself from portrayal? How does identity itself--is this really possible?--change in regards to the aptitiudes and deficiencies of the form? Is representation "greater" than any assumption of identity? How much sense in regards to any of these questions originates, neither from formal properties nor representative essence, but rather from the critique generated by the question of representation itself? That is, if representative form overtakes essential portrayal and the techniques of form in turn overtake the representative form, at what point is all of this generated by a technique of critique that the viewer necessitates in response to the form itself?

These are the types of questions you should be asking and answering yourself as you move through these texts and images. Click on the link to the left in order to begin the exercise.