Isaac Julien

I found Isaac Julien to be interesting. He definitely does play on the fact that he is a gay black man in british culture. I think that putting your self (not physically, but with personal identity) into your pieces like that really speaks out. And hopefully the viewer will know the background of the artists because I would think that it would make all the difference. I enjoy pieces that are controversial, and I said before that I would love to create that evoked an emotion in my viewers, much like Isaac Julien. He has that underlying meaning of a societal disturbance with slavery, turned into a domestic disturbance like dominating actions... I like it. He seems to keep that sexual theme through most of his work and I like that he uses I guess a type of digital performance media to get his point across, I don't think that it would feel the same without the actions. I notice that they do not have interview questions for him in the margins...I wonder why that is, I would love to find out if these pieces are for some sort of personal satisfaction or if he is really just trying to evoke awkward emotion in the viewers.