Author: charlie chayyim shaw
Charlie "Chayyim” Shaw is a multidisciplinary artist and archivist who is graduating with an MSLIS and Advanced Certificate in Archives. Charlie Chayyim grounds his practice in lens-based work, drag performance, and archival research. His research interests include digital imaging, digital preservation and curation, and critical archival theory, particularly in the context of historical materials related to trans identity and drag performance.
Focusing through a Trans Marxist and materialist lens, this exhibition presents artworks and cultural artifacts from six of the Met’s departments which depict transition, regardless of the subject’s…
Handmade archival protective enclosure made in Conservation Lab (INFO-634) holding two zines by the artist, Chayyim. both of which incorporate archival materials about the history and contemporary culture…
An artist talk and exhibition of “IT’S FUN TO BE CLASSIFIED”, a series of lens-based mixed media collages. This work explores the history and contemporary legacy of categorization,…
The exhibition will comprise the students’ final projects—artworks that integrate or draw inspiration from digital or analog materials from the Pratt Institute Archives.