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What The Fuck!?: Objectified child of the rainforestPosted: June 12th, 2008 by the advocates
So it has taken me a while to cobble some sort of critique of the Amazonia Brasil exhibit that’s down at the South Street Seaport now until July or something. For more of the horrible exhibit visit our gallery page up top. If you have a conscience of any kind you will feel disgusted too. UN declaration to recognize Ainu as Indigenous in JapanPosted: June 9th, 2008 by Renee
“A spokesman for the Japanese cabinet said Friday that the government would officially recognize the Ainu [backgrounder] - an ethnic minority mainly concentrated on Japan’s Hokkaido island who traditionally lived by hunting, gathering and fishing - as an indigenous population after both houses of the country’s parliament unanimously endorsed a non-binding resolution urging the move. The spokesman added that the government will establish a committee to discuss measures to protect members of the group. The long-resisted official recognition comes in response to Japan’s obligations under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People [PDF text], passed [JURIST report] by the UN General Assembly last September with Japan’s support. This will be the first time that Japan has recognized a group as indigenous. Bloomberg has more. The Mainichi Daily News has local coverage.” “The Japanese government has long been accused of discriminating against the Ainu, despite a 1997 law [text] meant to protect Ainu rights. Previous to that, the Ainu fell under the 1899 Hokkaido Former Aborigine Protection Law, which promoted their assimilation with mainstream Japanese society. Experts say that the government’s traditional assimilation policy [CWIS backgrounder] and wide-spread discrimination have reduced the Ainu population and has led to the group trailing behind the rest of the nation in education and income.” [Source] Transfusion (part 2)Posted: June 7th, 2008 by Maria
 Image: Courtesy Chris Pappan
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From Chris Pappan:
Join us for the opening reception of Transfusion (part 2) at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian 3001 Central st. Evanston IL from 1p - 4p. (847)475-1030 www.mitchellmuseum.org
Hope to see you there!
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2008 Winnipeg Aboriginal Film FestivalPosted: June 7th, 2008 by Maria
Deadline to submit: Monday, July 14, 2008 The 7th Annual Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival (WAFF) invites you to submit your work to one of North America’s longest-running indigenous film and video festivals, happening this November 20-23, 2008.
Call For Submissions!!!!!! Submissions are now being accepted in 7 categories. WAFF pays screening fees to artists and there is no submission fee for entries received on or before the mid-July deadline. For complete rules and entry forms, go to www.aboriginalfilmfest.org or email info@aboriginalfilmfest.org. Posted in Announcements ~ No Comments »
the other APT curator Jenny FraserPosted: June 3rd, 2008 by Maria
 Image: cyberTRIBE the other APT has been selected for inclusion in the 2008 Biennale of Sydney’s Online Venue. As part of the forthcoming Biennale, Revolutions – Forms That Turn, Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has selected digital artworks and texts to be featured in its Online Venue. The exhibition as a whole and the Online Venue particularly, focuses on the different ways artists have ‘revolutionised’ contemporary art. It explores the impulse to revolt, rotating, turning upside down, shifting points of view, revolving, mirroring and reversing as formal devices, as well as chart their broader aesthetic, psychological, psychoanalytical, radical and political perspectives. Held over the 2006/2007 summer in Brisbane the other APT was a multi-artform exhibition that coincided with and questioned the Queensland Art Gallerys 5th Asia Pacific Triennial, with a similar focus – of art within the Asia-Pacific region, but with local artists included. Presented by cyberTribe which has a history of almost a decade in Online Curating, the exhibition website allowed audiences for the other APT to be far reaching internationally, along with the celebration and exhibition program held at Raw Space Galleries in Brisbane. Curator Jenny Fraser says of the exhibition “The primary curatorial premise of the other APT was to show artworks from Indigenous Australian Artists, and also show meaningful works from other Artists that may constitute them as a friend in culture and good visitor to this country, in meaningful dialogue and otherwise. In other words, Aboriginals actively engaging with each other, and those from other cultural backgrounds - Torres Strait Islander, Melanesian, Maori, Samoan, Japanese, Filipino and others from outside the Asia-Pacific Rim, providing a true survey, commenting on individual and shared experience. Naturally some of these works are collaborations - existing works, and also works produced especially for the other APT, but all really important discourse, culturally and historically. It is important that it has been acknowledged by the Curator of the Biennale of Sydney.” The Online Venue will provide a wider context to the physical 2008 Biennale of Sydney, as well as constitute a space of its own. The Online Venue is the first of its kind in the world and thus a revolutionary form of presentation for the Biennale. With an emphasis on exploration and discovery, the non-linear navigation allows the user to explore and view artworks in an intuitive way. The Biennales website presents a selection of artist projects in a dynamic constellation. Works are linked together by curatorial themes. Each visit to the site presents a new set of linked works to view, keeping the site fresh and brimming with new juxtapositions. the other APT , has also been invited to tour to the Tjibaou Cultural Centre in Noumea, New Caledonia later this year. In Recent News: Amazon Indians Want Their Privacy!Posted: June 1st, 2008 by Maria
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A recent Yahoo news item trumpeted the discovery of an Amazonian tribe who have had no contact with the outside world. Judging from this photograph they’d like to keep it that way. For more from the assholes who undoubtedly were flying in the plane from which these images were taken go here: Source.
What the Fuck!?: South Street Seaport’s “Amazon Rainforest”Posted: May 16th, 2008 by Maria
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There is a Brazillian rainforest re-creation complete with real live Amazon Indians for our gawking pleasure down at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport from now until sometime in July.  image: Source
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Sounds fun, no? Not only do you get to interact with the real live Indian shamen/artisans you also get to cyber-chat with their friends and family back in their rainforest home! I mean, holy shit who knew they hand internet access in the Amazon? Well, actually the National Museum of the American Indian recently hosted a video series created by and about the indigenous people of the Amazon. So clearly, they are tech saavy, but I’m curious to see how this rainforest and it’s inhabitants are presented outside of their natural context, and in a touristy area of Lower Manhattan, no less. The idea of shamen/artisans on display for the tourist masses (because that’s about all that hang down at the Seaport) in what amounts to a 3-D interactive museum-style exhibition harkens directly to James Luna’s “Artifact Piece” recently re-enacted by Erica Lord, also at the NMAI. This warrants a what the fuck!?, fo sho! Because no matter which way you spin it it still exoticizes not only the people of the rainforest, but the environment itself, and consequently, re-enforces the notion of native people, their homes, and lifeways as anthro-archaelogical curiosities. But let’s not be too hasty nor cynical. Perhaps nuances were added to challenge my assumptions? Of course, I will go down to investigate! This Sunday, in fact, though it will cost me $16.00, but I would have spent that on less enligtening situations-like happy hour. What The Fuck!?: Doris KlosterPosted: May 15th, 2008 by Maria
 Portrait of the artist as Indian. Photo: Doris Kloster
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In light of the ridiculous “Native” inspired cultural detritus I have found lately, and because there are too many instances in daily life to exclaim, “What the Fuck!?” I have created a new category appropriately titled: What the Fuck!? Our first entrant in this category was the jury panel for Tribeca’s All Access program. You may recall it included Adam Beach and some lesser known non-movie involved types like Damon Dash. Anyway, let’s add this old battleaxe of a blonde, photograher Doris Kloster. Evidently her “sexy” ourvre is popular in Japan. Figures….a sampling of her “work” can be found here, Shit. The more interesting photos on the site, specfically because they are so ill-conceived and executed, are the self-portraits which claim to reference the, “iconic presence of women in visual interpretations of current world events.” Really? How does a be-feathered Indian girl figure into current world events? Had Doris attended the Miss Indian World pageant at GON this year, and thus obtained her inspiration? Because the last time I hung out with Indian chicks, which was, like, three weeks ago, none of them were wearing feathered head-dresses or wielding corn-of the cob variety. Perhaps Doris is being ironic? Perhaps that cob is representative of her preferred dildo size and texture? It’s probably organic, the corn, maybe even the feathers, are of the eagle variety. Nothing is more organic than Native Americans and corn. Anyway, she is known for her fetish photography and naughty “video art” so none of this is too far-fetched. It is possible to fetishize anything, right? Her suggestive proffering of the cob (in the none too subtle “Land O Lakes” manner), to you the viewer/voyeur, intimates her fantasy: it will be shoved firmly up her rather large ass where her work gurgitates then rush releases into the artworld, shit that it is. And, the feathers? Why to tickle her with, silly! I mean duh! She is the first lady of sexy fetish photography! For more of Doris’ dumb-assisms: www.doriskloster.com We dare you to pop a boner! « Previous Entries |
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