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| aartiwu vol.3, DIGEST #29 (April 24, 2001) | |
| 1. | rachelle's performances |
| 2. | help me find a home! |
| 3. | EGG is yummy |
| 4. | "ART" at Heartland Theatre Company |
| 5. | The Argus, 13 April 2001 |
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Subject: rachelle's performances
From: "Rachelle Street" <rsphoto79@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 18:41:28 -0500
hey everyone, i'm going to be in two more one-act plays this weekend. both of them are free to the public, performed in the phoenix theatre, and show at noon and 8pm. on saturday i play a bitchy waitress (who me?) named hilde in "am i blue." sunday i play a neglected lesbian (who me?) named dymphna in "terminating, or las meine schmerzen nicht verloren sein, or ambivilance." i really recommend the sunday performance--it was written by tony kushner based off from shakespeare's sonnet 75. ben calvert is directing it and it's an intense play. i'd feel real crappy if anyone drove all the way to bloomington to see me in a play and you only got to see "am i blue" on saturday because i'm in about one minute of the show. so if you're going to come, come on sunday is what i'm trying to say. call or email me with any questions.
rachelle street
rsphoto79@hotmail.com
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Subject: help me find a home!
From: "Rachelle Street" <rsphoto79@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 18:43:05 -0500
i'm moving to new york city at the beginning of june. i'm trying to find an apartment but am coming up against some obstacles. does anyone have any help for me?
rachelle street
rsphoto79@hotmail.com
309.556.2746
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3.
Subject: EGG is yummy
From: Ethan Schleeter
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 4:56 PM
Have you heard about or seen "Egg the Arts Show" on PBS? I had heard about it a long time ago, but was under the impression that it was only airing on New York's public television station WNET. I stumbled across it again yesterday, which was (I believe) the second time it has shown on Peoria's PBS station. Apparently it's been syndicated and picked up by the other PBS stations around the country. The show is very cool -- think Sesame Street for adults, but all with arts concepts (except not oversimplified and no 'brought to you by the number 9 and the letter G').
Last night's show had a piece about Jeff Koons, with MoMA's director saying how cool he was and Hilton Kramer saying (and I quote) "It's crap." They even have a cool website -- go to www.pbs.org and click on the guy in the egg suit. We should have thought this up! I think a lot of people who don't know much about art will love it and learn some very cool stuff. And if you think you already know a lot about art, you'll dig it even more.
For more info, check out:
http://www.pbs.org/egg
Ethan
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Subject: "ART" at Heartland Theatre Company
From: "Rachelle Street" <rsphoto79@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:46:30 -0500
The award winning comedy "ART" is coming to the Heartland Theatre Company in Normal. I saw this play in London and it was fabulous. I think it's safe to say the Heartland performance won't be quite as good as the London or New York productions, but it's still a great play and I highly recommend everyone go see it. It's being directed by IWU theatre recruiter Kay Lynn Perry and the character of Marc is being played by IWU director and professor Roger Bechtel. Here's all the info:
Where: Corner of Beech and Lincoln in Normal
When: April 26-29 and May 4-6, 7:30pm on Friday and Saturday, 2pm on
Sunday
How much: $10 or use your student ID and get in for $5
call 309-452-8709 for reservations
I still have a copy of the play if anyone want to read it!
Rachelle Street
rsphoto79@hotmail.com
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5.
Subject: The Argus, 13 April 2001
From: "Rachelle Street" <rsphoto79@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 18:26:21 -0500
Yo Mama's Last Supper isn't appetizing in New York
Responding to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's conservative criticism of controversial art, artists
by Rachelle Street
Throughout history art has caused controversy. Not because artists sit around thinking, "Gee, what can I do today to be shocking and controversial?" but because good artists create work that5t questions politics, culture and society. Their work offends people who are uncomfortable with the issues the artists raise.
Should we get rid of art because it pushed some people outside of their comfort zone? To paraphrase a speech given before Eminem's performance at the Grammy's: We can't edit out the art that makes people uncomfortable.
Renee Cox is a black woman from Jamaica whose photograph, "Yo Mama's Last Supper," has caused quite a stir.
The photograph is being displayed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art along with he work of over 180 other black photographers, as part of an exhibit in honor of Black History Month titled "Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers."
The photograph shows 12 African-American men gathered around a table with cox posed nude as Jesus, standing between the apostles with her arms outstretched. William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said the piece is anti-Catholic and offensive.
Why are people so offended by this photograph? A black female freshman put it best when she sarcastically said, "Oh, that's not the image of Jesus."
The religious response to Cox's work is the very point she is trying to make with her art: Western Christianity needs to rethink its values.
Why do we insist on portraying Jesus as a white man? We seem to be failing to take into consideration the fact that Jesus lived in a time and place where there weren't any Caucasians. Throughout history the Church has depicted Jesus as white because they believe God created man in his own image, and white people are the superior race.
Therefore, in order to be a Supreme Being, God must be white.
"Yo Mama's Last Supper" brings white supremacy issues to the surface and frankly, that makes a lot of white people nervous.
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is always ready to jump on the religion bandwagon and call anything that might not be depicting religion in a positive light "outrageous" and "disgusting." Most of the time he doesn't even grasp the meaning behind the work--if he did he might not find it so offensive.
Take the work of another black artist, Christopher Ofili, whose "Holy Virgin Mary" was on display in the Brooklyn Museum of Art as part of the British "Sensation" show two years ago. In "Holy Virgin Mary" Ofili painted the Virgin Mary's skin a rich mahogany and then used elephant dung as a glaze to finish the piece. What? Covering the Virgin Mary with feces! Unacceptable. Right?
Perhaps not.
The dung wasn't smeared. It wasn't disrespectful. It was just an art material that African artists have used for centuries. It's revered in their culture because dung is viewed as a regenerative, rebirthing symbol. Elephants in Africa represent power. Dung is meant to suggest fertility.
Ofili's use of the elephant dung was symbolic of his Nigerian heritage. But what would Major Giuliani know about that? Oh, and did I forget to mention that Ofili is Roman Catholic?
Another piece made famous by the religious uproar it caused was Adres Serrano's 1989 photograph "Piss Christ," which showed a plastic crucifix in a mixture of urine and cow's blood.
The photograph was often cited in arguments for discontinuing the National Endowment for the Arts Program. Taxpayer's money, it was argued, shouldn't be used to create such offensive work.
Conservative politicians and religious fundamentalists seem unable to see anything beyond their own narrow views. The photograph is actually quite beautiful, with rich glowing colors.
When speaking about the piece, Serrano said, "My intent was to aestheticize Christ. Beautiful light. It's a very spiritually comforting image, not like the icons we see in church. At the same time, the fact that you know there's a bodily fluid involved here is meant to question the whole notion of what is acceptable and unacceptable. There's duality here, of good and evil, life and death....'Piss Christ' was not a critical or angry work in the least."
So what is good art and what is bad art? And do we really think a panel of taxpaying citizens should be left to decide?
If we allowed that to happen the museums would become filled with boring, mediocre, pretty work--and there's already too much of that right now.
My own family gets nervous when I show them photographs or drawings of nudes. They would much rather I took landscape photographs or fully clothed portraits. Should I change my art to better accommodate their opinions?
The idea is ridiculous. The next time you see a piece of artwork that makes you uncomfortable, stop and ask yourself why it elicits that response from you. What personal belief does it challenge that makes you squirm?
Artists want you to question the political and social status quo of the day. they're not trying to offend or shock you but rather to shake you up and make you question your own beliefs of right and wrong.
When society tries to censor art, it is in effect censoring itself.
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Coming and Ongoing shows of IWU people
April 4 - April 27, 2001
IWU SENIORS & SOPHOMORES (class of 01, 03)
BFA/BA Senior Exhibition
Sophomore Exhibition
IWU Merwin & Wakeley Galleries, Bloomington, IL
April 13 - 29, 2001 (reception: Friday, April 13, 5-10 pm)
RENEE MCGINNIS (class of 84)
Thirteenth Floor Gallery Group Show, 2337 West North Avenue, Chicago, IL
April 12 - May 13, 2001 (reception April 13, 7pm)
KEVIN STRANDBERG (professor)
Fecundity & Ferocity -- Cast bronze figures
Midway Artists Gallery, 414 N. Main St., Bloomington, IL
April 20 - May 25, 2001
LAURA A. KESSELRING (class of 97)
"Twenty-Something"
Appleton Art Center, 130 N. Morrison St., Appleton, WI 54911
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