Patrick, I am a taker for your perspective.I have been to China, Mongolia
and North India, to Lebanon and Armenia, that's the nearest I ever got to
the places you talk about. Let's hear more about what it was like to live
and work there.
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 11:27 PM wrote:
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Oh yes, and the throngs of newly minted Chinese Bourgeoisie in West and Central
Asia.
And discovering Dungan food in Kyrgyzstan.
And discovering Uyghur artists trying to use AI in Vancouver to make children's
books with characters that fool Vommunist Party Ai So no one goes to
(All beatles puns intended)
In. late January, briefly after my return from 5 years in the UAE, during which
time I engaged in tactical media in Central Asia and the Caucasus, started a VR
center in Abu Dhabi, and married my life partner, Negin Ehtesabian, who was my
collaborator in
Brian
And the whole aborigine/first peoples discussion in Australia about not
screening or showing the faces of the dead! Aborigines believe that it
strips the deceased of their spirit and, of course, it was all cool at
first to want to show ethnographic films and all, but now many have been
Hi Molly, all,
Just to chime in briefly from NL. It’s great to see the Dutch national museum
for mostly pre-modern visual arts take up this gauntlet and producing a show
that extends the rather meagre presentation of NL’s colonial past (and present!
– don’t forget, there are still “overseas
Hi
I think that some attention needs to be paid to some institutional
changes that occurred in the Netherlands (I don't live there anymore
so some of this maybe behind the curve).
Out of the anti-modern art blood bath of recent years in NL that
was concurrent with the populist ascendancy. This
I agree, it is great to see restitution go from fringe idea 20 years ago to
unfolding story today.
There's great work in this direction by Ariella Azoulay, a historian of
photography who says the image belongs to the person in it, so give it
back. She is dead serious about that, in a way that
