How I Learned To...
Everyone remembers sitting in a classroom, staring out the window, bored, distracted, or daydreaming. If you're lucky you also remember moments of getting swept away by a poem or an equation. Classrooms go with us, carried around in our heads long after we've left them – an imprint, the effects of which follow us silently the rest of our lives. Weston Teruya and Michele Carlson take a closer look at the personal and political implications of our educational spaces, transforming the gallery at Intersection for the Arts into a staged classroom that will induce a rush of personal memories for each spectator. All of us as former students have a shared vocabulary of the requisite layout and props--a phalanx of desks facing forward, the teacher's desk, walls lined with bookshelves, charts and an American flag.
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Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present
The Bush administration has made a fine art of creating and disseminating its own historical reality, driving the American public into either complicit belief or angry, uneasy doubt. Psymulation, a group show at Hamburger Eyes curated by Chris Fitzpatrick, invites the viewer to participate in that anxiety-producing moment when we have to ask ourselves if the facts reported to us are truth or fiction. Should we believe the history unfolding before us on the TV or Internet? Each artist presents documents (photographs, video, mixed media and works on paper) that offer "evidence" of our post-9/11 world where everything is viewed through the prism of terror.
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