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In an essay in which she describes herself as a "black [[Marxist]]", Rodriguez criticizes the practice of equating identities with "injury" and awarding "immunity" to people with the most identities, calling it a "lazy politics that doesn't require one to do any critical thinking or political work." She argues that "it is a system based on the state's logic of restitution and punishment, and fundamentally opposed to solidarity." What she prefers instead is political organizing and activity.<ref name="tworead">{{cite magazine |last=Rodriguez |first=Shellyne |date=June 20, 2019 |title=Two Readings on Mistaken Identity |url=https://asapjournal.com/two-readings-on-mistaken-identity-shellyne-rodriguez/ |magazine=ASAP/Journal |access-date=July 17, 2023}}</ref>
In an essay in which she describes herself as a "black [[Marxist]]", Rodriguez criticizes the practice of equating identities with "injury" and awarding "immunity" to people with the most identities, calling it a "lazy politics that doesn't require one to do any critical thinking or political work." She argues that "it is a system based on the state's logic of restitution and punishment, and fundamentally opposed to solidarity." What she prefers instead is political organizing and activity.<ref name="tworead">{{cite magazine |last=Rodriguez |first=Shellyne |date=June 20, 2019 |title=Two Readings on Mistaken Identity |url=https://asapjournal.com/two-readings-on-mistaken-identity-shellyne-rodriguez/ |magazine=ASAP/Journal |access-date=July 17, 2023}}</ref>

== Legal issues ==


On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, after [[pro-life]] students set up a display in a hallway near Rodriguez' classroom studio, they recorded her arguing with them and shoving their pamphlets off of a table. In the recording, she said they were "triggering [her] students."<ref name=ABC>{{cite news
On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, after [[pro-life]] students set up a display in a hallway near Rodriguez' classroom studio, they recorded her arguing with them and shoving their pamphlets off of a table. In the recording, she said they were "triggering [her] students."<ref name=ABC>{{cite news
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|archive-date= 28 May 2023 }}</ref> After meeting with two members of the Hunter College administration about the matter,

After meeting with two members of the Hunter College administration about the matter,
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}}</ref> According to ''[[Hyperallergic]]'', Rodriguez began receiving messages filled with "racial and sexual slurs and threats of death and physical violence."<ref name="hyperallergic" />
}}</ref> According to ''[[Hyperallergic]]'', Rodriguez began receiving messages filled with "racial and sexual slurs and threats of death and physical violence."<ref name="hyperallergic" />


On May 23, a ''New York Post'' reporter and a photographer went to her home to interview and photograph her. Rodriguez told them to leave and, when they persisted, she allegedly threatened one of them with a machete. She followed the journalists as they went back to their car and chased the photographer with the machete. Part of the confrontation was captured on a ''Post'' employee's [[dashcam]].<ref name="ABC" /><ref name="BBC" /><ref name="NYPostvideo">{{cite news |last1=Fenton |first1=Reuven |date=May 24, 2023 |title=EXCLUSIVE: Post Reporter Threatened by NYC Professor with Machete Tells All |work=[[New York Post]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTC_LYXcc9I&t=111s&ab_channel=NewYorkPost |access-date=July 10, 2023}}</ref> She was subsequently fired by Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts and arrested on charges of [[menacing]] and [[harassment]].<ref name="BBC" /><ref name="beast">{{cite news |last1=Hippensteel |first1=Chris |date=May 23, 2023 |title=NYC Professor Threatens to 'Chop Up' New York Post Reporter With Machete |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/professor-shellyne-rodriguez-threatens-new-york-post-reporter-with-machete |access-date=May 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.fo/995Ot |archive-date=May 24, 2023}}</ref><ref name="ART" /><ref name="ABC" />
As the video gained attention on social media,
the ''New York Post'' published a story about it
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}}</ref> The next morning, a ''New York Post'' reporter and a photographer went to her home to interview her and take a photograph of her. According to the reporter's account of the incident, she told them to "get lost."<ref name="NYPostvideo"/> They persisted with their request for an interview. They did not leave until she opened the door, pointed a machete at one and told them to: "Get away from my door! Get the fuck away from my door!"<ref name="NYPostvideo">{{cite news |last1=Fenton |first1=Reuven |title=EXCLUSIVE: Post Reporter Threatened by NYC Professor with Machete Tells All |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTC_LYXcc9I&t=111s&ab_channel=NewYorkPost |access-date=July 10, 2023 |work=[[New York Post]] |date=May 24, 2023}}</ref> Rodriguez then followed the journalists to their car, where the car's cameras recorded her chasing them with machete in hand.<ref name=ABC/><ref name="BBC"/><ref name="NYPostvideo"/>

The next day, the [[BBC]] and other news outlets reported that Rodriguez had been fired from Hunter College following the incident with the ''New York Post'' reporters.<ref name=BBC/><ref name="beast">{{cite news |last1=Hippensteel |first1=Chris |date=May 23, 2023 |title=NYC Professor Threatens to 'Chop Up' New York Post Reporter With Machete |work=[[The Daily Beast]] |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/professor-shellyne-rodriguez-threatens-new-york-post-reporter-with-machete |access-date=May 24, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.fo/995Ot |archive-date=May 24, 2023 }}</ref> On May 25, Rodriguez was arrested on charges of [[menacing]] and [[harassment]]<ref name=ART/><ref name=ABC/> and fired from her position at the School of Visual Arts.<ref name=ABC/>


== References==
== References==

Revision as of 20:45, 14 August 2023

Shellyne Rodriguez (born 1977) is an American visual artist, organizer, and professor.[1][2]

Education

Rodriguez earned a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts in 2011 and a MFA in Fine Art from Hunter College in 2014.[2]

Artistic practice

In 2014, Rodriguez attended the Shandaken Project Residency in the Catskills of New York.[3] In 2015, she was artist-in-residence in the sculpture department at Hunter College.[4] In 2017, Rodriguez collaborated with the Museum of Modern Art to create the Night Studio program, a free art class for New York City residents in the process of taking the TASC (Test Assessing Secondary Completion, formerly the GED).[5] In 2018, Rodriguez was awarded the Percent for Art public sculpture commission to create a permanent public sculpture in the Bronx. Shellyne stated that the sculpture would serve as "a monument to the people of the Bronx."[6] In 2018, the Whitney Museum of American Art released a video by Rodriguez in which she discussed Ja'Tovia Gary's film An Ecstatic Experience.[7]

In 2019, Rodriguez became the inaugural artist-in-residence at The Latinx Project, an initiative based at NYU that is dedicated to Latinx studies.[8] Rodriguez curated a show centered around ideas of displacement and how it affects the Latinx population in New York. The show included pieces by Rodriguez, Alicia Grullón, and anti-gentrification group Mi Casa No es Su Casa.[8]

Selected exhibition history

  • Siempre En La Calle: Calderón, October 28, 2021 to January 29 2022[9][10]
  • PELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity, Latinx Project, NYU, 2019; curator: Shellyne Rodriguez[11]
  • BRONX NOW: Bronx River Art Center, July 14 to September 8, 2018; curated by Laura James and Eileen Walsh, who work under the name BXNYCreative[12]
  • Tamir Rice Photo Booth: Window Project, IMI Corona, Queens Museum, 2016; curator: Prerana Reddy[13]

Social-action activities

Community organizing

Rodriguez is a community organizer and an active member of the grassroots collective Take Back the Bronx.[2] In March 2019, Rodriguez joined a group of Latinx scholars, artists, and activists in penning and signing a letter to El Museo del Barrio demanding change [clarification needed] at the East Harlem institution.[14]

Rodriguez is a member of Decolonize This Place and spoke at the ultimately successful May 2019 protests against Warren B. Kanders, owner of the defense manufacturing company Safariland LLC and then-vice chair of the Whitney Museum of American Art, seeking to remove Kanders from its board.[15]

Writing

Rodriguez has written for multiple publications, including Hyperallergic.[16]

In an essay in which she describes herself as a "black Marxist", Rodriguez criticizes the practice of equating identities with "injury" and awarding "immunity" to people with the most identities, calling it a "lazy politics that doesn't require one to do any critical thinking or political work." She argues that "it is a system based on the state's logic of restitution and punishment, and fundamentally opposed to solidarity." What she prefers instead is political organizing and activity.[17]

On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, after pro-life students set up a display in a hallway near Rodriguez' classroom studio, they recorded her arguing with them and shoving their pamphlets off of a table. In the recording, she said they were "triggering [her] students."[18][19][20][21] After meeting with two members of the Hunter College administration about the matter, Rodriguez apologized.[22] According to Hyperallergic, Rodriguez began receiving messages filled with "racial and sexual slurs and threats of death and physical violence."[22]

On May 23, a New York Post reporter and a photographer went to her home to interview and photograph her. Rodriguez told them to leave and, when they persisted, she allegedly threatened one of them with a machete. She followed the journalists as they went back to their car and chased the photographer with the machete. Part of the confrontation was captured on a Post employee's dashcam.[18][20][23] She was subsequently fired by Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts and arrested on charges of menacing and harassment.[20][24][19][18]

References

  1. ^ "An Incomplete History of Protest: Shellyne Rodriguez on Ja'Tovia Gary". whitney.org. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  2. ^ a b c Rodriguez, Shellyne. "Shellyne Rodriguez". The New Inquiry. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  3. ^ "Shandaken: Projects | Alumni". www.shandakenprojects.org. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  4. ^ "MFA Program in Studio Art". 205 Hudson. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  5. ^ Zwicky, Calder (2017-11-20). "In The Night Studio". MoMA. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  6. ^ "Shellyne Rodriguez". Bronx 200. 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  7. ^ "An Incomplete History of Protest: Shellyne Rodriguez on Ja'Tovia Gary". whitney.org.
  8. ^ a b "9 Art Events in New York This Week: Nari Ward, Jonas Mekas, Judith Linhares, and More". MutualArt.com. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  9. ^ Durón, Maximilíano (2021-08-18). "New York's Newest Gallery Spotlights Latinx Artists: 'We See the Lack of Representation and the Need for It'". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  10. ^ "Shellyne Rodriguez and Danielle De Jesus: Siempre En La Calle | 28 October 2021 - 29 January 2022". Calderón. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
  11. ^ "PELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity". wp.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  12. ^ "Bronx River Art Center :: Gallery :: BRONX NOW". www.bronxriverart.org. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  13. ^ "Queens Museum". Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  14. ^ "'We Need Change Now': Activists Circulate Open Letter on Future of El Museo Del Barrio". MutualArt.com. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  15. ^ ""You Can't Hide": Protesters March from Whitney to Warren B. Kanders's Home During Biennial Opening". Artforum. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  16. ^ "The Unbridgeable Chasm Between the Bronx and the Police". Hyperallergic. 2017-03-21. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  17. ^ Rodriguez, Shellyne (June 20, 2019). "Two Readings on Mistaken Identity". ASAP/Journal. Retrieved July 17, 2023.
  18. ^ a b c Richardson, Kemberly (May 25, 2023). "Hunter College professor arrested after threatening NY Post reporter with machete". WABC-TV / AP. American Broadcasting Company (ABC), a division of The Walt Disney Company. Archived from the original on May 25, 2023. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
  19. ^ a b Greenberger, Alex (May 26, 2023). "Artist Shellyne Rodriguez Charged with Menacing and Harassment After Incident Involving Reporter". ARTnews. Art Media, LLC. Archived from the original on May 26, 2023. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
  20. ^ a b c Kim, Chloe (May 24, 2023). "US professor fired after machete threat to New York Post reporter". BBC. Archived from the original on May 24, 2023. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  21. ^ Blaff, Ari (May 23, 2023). "'F***ing Propaganda': CUNY College Professor Destroys Pro-Life Table at Hunter College". National Review. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
  22. ^ a b Nayyar, Rhea; Di Liscia, Valentina (May 24, 2023). "School Fires Arts Professor Who Confronted Anti-Abortion Group". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on July 6, 2023. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
  23. ^ Fenton, Reuven (May 24, 2023). "EXCLUSIVE: Post Reporter Threatened by NYC Professor with Machete Tells All". New York Post. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  24. ^ Hippensteel, Chris (May 23, 2023). "NYC Professor Threatens to 'Chop Up' New York Post Reporter With Machete". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on May 24, 2023. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
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