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Thursday October 11, 7:30 pm, Trustees Theater Lecture Series Andrea Robbins and Max Becher The Transportation of Place "The primary focus of our work is, what we call, the transportation of place — situations in which one limited or isolated place strongly resembles another distant one. Everywhere, not only in the new world, such situations are accumulating and accepted as genuine locales. Traditional notions of place, in which culture and geographic location neatly coincide, are being challenged by legacies of slavery, colonialism, holocaust, immigration, tourism and mass-communication. Whether the subject is Germany in Africa, Germans dressing as Native Americans, American towns dressed as Germany, New York in Las Vegas, New York in Cuba, or Cuba in exile, our interest tends to be a place out of place with its various causes and consequences (Robbins/Becher 2003)." The lecture is free and open to the public, and held in conjunction with the artists' exhibition "(Dis)placed Identity," on display at Red Gallery through Oct. 15.
Three Men from the series German Indians Chromogenic prints, 30" x 25.75", 1997-98. ©Andrea Robbins, Max Becher |
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Friday, October 12, 5 pm, River Club Zig Jackson Zig's Talk Jackson, raised on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, is of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara descent. As a native artist in contemporary America, Jackson’s photography deconstructs myths and misconceptions about Native Americans while exploring contemporary issues. “The subject of legend and popular fantasy, [the native American] is commonly viewed as an ageless anachronism forever frozen in the past, as exemplified by tired and hackneyed characterizations such as the ‘Noble Savage,’ the stoic and ruthless warrior, the nubile, buckskin-clad maiden, the all-knowing shaman and spiritual guru, etc.,” Jackson said in his artist statement. “Even today, after centuries of coexistence, the real Indian remains an elusive paradox to the majority of non-native society.”
Indian Photographing Tourist Photographing Indian, Camera in Face, Taos, New Mexico, silver gelatin print 16x20” © Zig Jackson |
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Saturday, October 13, 5 pm, River Club Sam Wang Honored Educator Sam Wang was born and grew up in Beijing. He attended high school in Hong Kong. He studied art in the US and received an MFA in photography from the University of Iowa. In 1966 he joined the faculty at the School of Architecture at Clemson University. Last year he retired after a teaching career of 40 years at Clemson. At Clemson Sam began one of the earliest photography programs in the southeast. In 1989 he initiated the digital classes at Clemson and in 2000, along with his colleague Robert Geist from computer science, created the MFA in DPA, (Digital Production Arts), program preparing students for the animation field. Sam taught at Nanjing Arts Institute during his sabbatical in 2003-2004 and has brought photo educators to China on a lecture tour in 2006. He has just returned from a trip to attend the International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China, in September, and gave a talk about photo education in the US at the photo educators' conference held at the Pingyao Festival. |
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 11am Telfair Room
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Saturday, October 13, 2007 11am River Club: Upstairs
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 3pm Bonadventure Room
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Saturday, October 13, 2007 9am River Club: Upstairs
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Saturday, October 13, 2007 10am River Club: Downstairs
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 2pm Bonadventure Room
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 11am Bonadventure Room
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Saturday, October 13, 2007 11am River Club: Downstairs
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 9am Telfair Room
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Friday, October 12, 2007 10am Studio 308 Bergen Hall
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Saturday, October 13, 2007 9am River Club: Downstairs
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Friday, October 12, 2007 2pm Studio 308 Bergen Hall
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Friday, October 12, 2007 9am Studio 308 Bergen Hall
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 4pm Telfair Room
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 9am Bonadventure Room
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 2pm Telfair Room
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 10am Bonadventure Room
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 3pm Telfair Room
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 4pm Bonadventure Room
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Friday, October 12, 2007 11am Studio 308 Bergen Hall
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Friday, October 12, 2007, 10am Telfair Room
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Silvia Lizama: Still hand coloring after all these years
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Saturday, October 13, 2007 10am River Club: Upstairs
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