https://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/files/original/6873b1a8ad8c86c7172a6959c86ef3f6.jpg 25d6ae9d3be810121e7f563566272c8c https://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/files/original/fe16d278dfbb2c160ff565d99f4ddd37.JPG 9b6346526c90019ba9072ca179e35aea https://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/files/original/686ab91230057c93355637f8d89f5b77.JPG 6ce382f2acf43aed8e4f7c635fdcac39 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Digital videos. Edition 5 of 10. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image Installed: 28 x 108 inches. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>Juke</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 Relation A related resource 2008-2009 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2009.1.6 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jefferson Pinder Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Courtesy of the artist Description An account of the resource Jefferson Pinder, who earned his MFA in video and performance art at the University of Maryland in 2003 and taught in the Department of Art for nearly a decade, is interested in the interaction between artwork and viewer. His video installation Juke comprises ten videos, two of which play on each monitor in the present installation. In each, a camera focuses on a black person’s face framed against a bright white background. The subjects—including the artist and nine other Washingtonians—lip-synch songs by white musicians, from country singers Loretta Lynn and Johnny Cash to rockers David Bowie and Patti Smith. Performances are heartfelt and visceral. Pinder elaborates: “There are hundreds (if not thousands) of unspoken rules of engagement in this never ending fight [against] racism in the United States. Popular music has been a dynamic changing battleground. Music has always been segregated. <em>Juke</em> is a musical installation that wrestles with serious issues in the most unfamiliar way. Can music be either black or white? Can song be used as an instrument to provoke a conversation about race?” As <em>Juke</em> makes evident, “the lyrics that these performers are singing relate to the black experience—all of them.”