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  1. Blue Velvet

    Blue Velvet is a documentary about Hurricane Katrina and its affect upon New Orleans, LA. “Combining sound, text, photography, video, and several maps, the piece sculpts an evocative and poignant landscape that nonetheless refuses all registers of nostalgia, insisting as it does that we locate Katrina and the Crescent City among multiple trajectories of policy, memory, and representation”

    (Source: “Blue Velvet”—Vectors, cited in the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue).

    Blue Velvet: Re-Dressing New Orleans in Katrina's Wake" is an interactive essay enabling its users to submerge themselves in a poetic wordscape describing the contours of American racial politics post-Katrina. 

    Artists' Statement

    Meri Alexandra Raita - 30.01.2012 - 12:16