"In your cultural prison, which inmates wield the power?"
"Ah," I said. "The male inmates. Especially the white male inmates."
"Yes, that's right. But, you understand, that these white male inmates are indeed inmates and not warders. For all their power and privilege - for all they lord it over everyone else in the prison - not one of them has a key that will unlock the gate."
"Of course it's true that males - and, as you say, especially white males - have called the shots inside the prison for thousands of years, perhaps even from the beginning. Of course, it's true that this is unjust. And, of course it's true that power and wealth within the prison should be equitably redistributed. But, it should be noted that what is crucial to your survival as a human race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself."
--from Daniel Quinn's Ishamel
In order to better elucidate when I entered this movement, I must first begin with what the movement is. With movement as metaphor as one of the guiding principles of my artistic practice, dictionary.com does a fine job of clarifying:
move·ment
[moov-muh
nt] –noun
1. the act, process, or result of moving.
2. a particular manner or style of moving.
3. Usually, movements. actions or activities, as of a person or a body of persons.
4. Military, Naval. a change of position or location of troops or ships.
5. abundance of events or incidents.
6. rapid progress of events.
7. the progress of events, as in a narrative or drama.
8. Fine Arts. the suggestion of motion in a work of art, either by represented gesture in figurative painting or sculpture or by the relationship of structural elements in a design or composition.
9. a progressive development of ideas toward a particular conclusion: the movement of his thought.
10. a series of actions or activities intended or tending toward a particular end: the movement toward universal suffrage.
11. the course, tendency, or trend of affairs in a particular field.
12. a diffusely organized or heterogeneous group of people or organizations tending toward or favoring a generalized common goal: the antislavery movement; the realistic movement in art.
13. the price change in the market of some commodity or security: an upward movement in the price of butter.
14. bowel movement. (One of my personal faves.)
15. the working parts or a distinct portion of the working parts of a mechanism, as of a watch.
16. Music.
a. a principal division or section of a sonata, symphony, or the like.
b. motion; rhythm; time; tempo.
17. Prosody. rhythmical structure or character.
