Exhibit: "Occupations," Student Work from the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Program

The first-ever public exhibition of Duke MFA work, "Occupations," will open on Friday, February 17, in the Corridor Gallery of the East Duke building on Duke's East Campus, and run through March 15. In the wake of the dispersion of many of the Occupy sites around the country, seven students in the inaugural class of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts have compiled a body of work that explores various concepts of "occupation," from calls for social change to depictions of the quotidian. Through a personal documentary approach, these works depict spaces of interaction, intervention, and at times, profound solitude, that expand the personal to the political and vice versa. The variety of styles and arts practices on display in "Occupation"--video, photographs, cell-phone photos--speaks to the multiple interests and concerns of these MFA students.