Biomythography

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The exhibition Biomythography: Reflexive Remix is the 6th in a series of exhibitions curated by Chris Christion and Jessica Wimbley that seek to investigate biomythography as a visual arts practice. In her seminal piece Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Audre Lorde, a self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” defined the term Biomythography, as “combining elements of history, biography, and myth." 

A remix is defined as a piece of media that has been altered from its original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, or photograph can all be remixes. The only characteristic of a remix is that it appropriates and changes other materials to create something new. In terms of discourse, postmodernism (metaphorically speaking) remixed modernism to expose how art is defined by ideologies and histories that are constantly revised. The contemporary artwork, as well as any media product, is a conceptual and formal collage of previous ideologies, critical philosophies, and formal artistic investigations extended to new media.[1] As the remix has evolved to vacillate between cultural product and cultural phenomenon, the nuances within the act of creating and defining the remix becomes increasingly complex.