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Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

Oreet Ashery


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The Gap in Wikipedia that I have identified is in relation to the artist Oreet Ashery. Within the Wiki page regarding her it discusses a very limited discussion about her works of her male characters that are suppose to represent gender relationships. This gap stood out to me because the path she takes to define power structures are challenged revolutionarily. All of her works overall represent a variety of issues within our social structures, which is very important because they display how things such as food or the human body can represent the social differences of cultures transnationally and how they impact human perceptions. The way people interact with others, as well as how others see these things allow the emergence and visibility of these intersections, creating a space of demarginalization of cultures. This gap limits the traditional perception of how art is used to portray messages of the ideas of race, class, gender etc. A big part of her work is focused on this idea of performance art and using male and female bodies as a bio-political tool, which has a wide range of issues. Also within her works she depicts a barber shop, as an interactional project, offering free hair cutting and shaving services to the public. This project is important to have on wikipedia because brought together people of all genders and races creating a social space where people can interact freely because this was a voluntary project issue of oppression seems to be left at the door.
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreet_Ashery

Original and written on page under CAREER: Ashery received her BA (distinction) in Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University in 1992, followed by her MA from Central Saint Martins in 2000. Her work explores ideological, social and gender constructions through an interdisciplinary practice, spanning installation, video, live art and 2-D image making. Ashery's earlier work was often produced as a male character of her own creation, exploring gender relationships and those between woman and cultural identity.[2] Ashery's most consistent character is Marcus Fisher, an orthodox Jewish man[3][4] found in works such as Dancing with Men and Marcus Fisher | Say Cheese, but she has produced as other male characters, including an Arab man, a Norwegian postman and a black man.[5] Ashery's more recent work has been based on Mayakovsky's 1921 play Mystery-Bouffe.[6] This work confronts social and class biases alongside issues of political power and agency. Her performance at the Tate Modern The World is Flooding in 2014 was followed by an exhibition Animal with a Language at Waterside Contemporary, both of which saw Ashery work with participants from Freedom from Torture, UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group, Portugal Prints,[7] and others, to explore these themes.

Ashery has exhibited and performed at various international venues, such as ZKM, Karlsruhe; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Overgaden, Copenhagen; DEPO, Istanbul; Whitstable Biennale; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Auto Italia South East, London; and Freud Museum, London,[8] producing works that explore her personal politics and identity in relation to wider social and cultural contexts.

Priscilla's Gap Analysis:

Along with her works of male characters and the relational value between cultural identity and women she also brings her attentions to using performance art, foods and social settings to deconstruct oppressive institutions. In more contemporary works of Ashery is named Part of Freedom. This work, seen as performance art, shows how the production of art, whether it be through the variety of medium we have access to, that the most simplistic thing such as our bodies can be used to recount revolutionary events in people's lives. Its like the idea of what is one (wo)mans trash is another (wo)mans treasure.

In comparison with foods, she takes her art to a more universal concept where everyone has their own ideologies about food and culture. She uses falafel, a deep fried ball, to use as a sort of base to describe a landmark of where people came together for social and performance events. Bringing people together without any restrictions is a huge thing for feminist arts because it allows a space for people of all identities to share ideas. Also foods can also describe the changing relationships people have in relation to a particular region. This also plays a big role in feminist arts because people think of art in different ways, a specific way how someone may think of arts is also based on locational understanding. Majority of Ashery’s work are focused on the common individual. Another of her works that analyze accessibility, Central Location. Another issue within feminist politics.
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 * "Central Location." Oreet Ashery. Oreet Ashery, 2011. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
 * "Party for Freedom | Monkey Bum Factory." Oreet Ashery. Oreet Ashery, 2011. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
 * Nonel and Vovel | Falafel Road." Oreet Ashery. Oreet Ashery, n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
 * "Oreet Ashery." Brooklyn Museum:. Elizabeth. A Sackler Center for Feminist Art, n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.
 * "7 Acts of Love." 7 Acts of Love. Oreet Ashery, n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2016.