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Category Archives: Performance Art

1. Rodrigo Valenzuela, the 13th man and the end of Utopia

   Rodrigo Valenzuela juxtaposes the words and experiences of migrants and other workers in the midst of the collapse of the utopian discourses of modernism and its structures, both philosophical and physical. He jarringly disconnects words and images to reveal the deep fissures in our society.

   This entry was posted on February 7, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Culture and Human rights, democracy, economic imperialism vs democracy, Performance Art, Photography, Uncategorized.

   Tags: day laborers, documentary fiction, domestic workers, migrant workers, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Utopian modernism and its collapse, workers

2. City Dwellers: Contemporary Art from India at the Seattle Art Museum

   Past and present in India mix in the stunning exhibition “City Dwellers: Contemporary Art from India” It includes artists working in urban centers throughout the country. Until December 7 it is paired with a fascinating, small show at the Asian Art Museum of Mughal art and artifacts.

   This entry was posted on November 11, 2014 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art In India, Film, Performance Art, Photography, Picasso, Seattle Art Museum, Uncategorized.

   Tags: "Mughal Painting: Power and Piety", Collection of Sanjay Parthasarathy and Malini Balakrishnan, Debanjan Roy, Keelen Overton, Manjunath Kamath, Nadini Valli Muthiah, Pushpamala N and Clare Arni, Valay Shende, Vivek Vilasini

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