A Brand New Ball Game, 1994, was an exhibit meant to teach kids in high school in an interactive manner about sexuality and everything pertaining to sexual health. This piece in particular was meant to be literal word play for students to compose sentences using these blocks to emphasize the importance of this dialogue, sexuality and everything it entails. This alludes to the overall theme of Alvarez Muñoz’s work about the “insider-outsider” dialogue, it was meant to be used by students both “in and out of the closet” so that they could all use language to express their knowledge or experiences using words society and the school systems have taught. Essentially using that which is commonly known to everyone in combination with that which only we alone know personally, Alvarez Muñoz May have intended for students to use her art to create art of their own.
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