Shifting Identity

This performance is a reenactment of my personal transformation from a civilian/student to "soldier". In this reenactment the simple gesture of a haircut becomes consumed with cultural and social implications that force a shift in an internalized Identity. This points in to the inherent instability and simultaneously the power of the narratives and myths that construct identity.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• aaron
• hughes
• Iraq
• war
• national
• guard
• Illinois
• veteran
• soldier
• identity

[sammy424912000]

wow i can't believe i just set here and watched someone get there hair cut LOL

[Grabsnappel]

I think the point being made here was that, although one level it was just a haircut, it marked a shift from one persona to another. The haircut was symbolic, marking the departure from the civilian phase of life to the military phase.

[Smeksa]

my father did it to me, when i was child.. he told me that you gonna be a real man if you have a haircut like army sholdier

[hpoeter]

He should get a role in the next terminator movie...

The face, dude! :D

[MultiLeroy22]

scary

[CN300]

he's on drugs .. can't you see ?



[Smeksa]

i think he doesnt want to get that haircut .. he has no expression ..

[LoganDParks]

Wtf the description is f ed up lol

[Efrain891]

Dang dude you look like a robot, BLINK!

[TheAlexandraMiller]

he only blinked like...twice?! hey why do you look like depressed, and angry?

[skullzee]

This doesn't change people's perception of your identity from civilian/student to military/soldier it just changes from full hair to shaved head. People had this perception in the 60's and before but even in the 70's and 80's people would percieve you more as a 'punk' and now I think it has just become fashion and normal for balding people to shave their and therefore has differentiation at all!