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Course: Global cultures 1980–now > Unit 1
Lesson 9: Mapping and migration- Christina Fernandez, María’s Great Expedition
- Julie Mehretu, Stadia II
- Mehretu, Stadia II
- Doris Salcedo's "Shibboleth"
- Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth
- Salcedo, Shibboleth
- Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth
- Raúl de Nieves, Beginning & the end neither & the otherwise betwixt & between the end is the beginning & the end
- Julie Mehretu: Politicized Landscapes
- An interview with Alfredo Jaar: Gramsci & Pasolini
- Jamie Wyeth, Kalounna in Frogtown
- Yto Barrada, Ceuta Border, Illegally Crossing the Border into the Spanish Enclave of Ceuta, Tangier
- Suchitra Mattai, Exodus
- Tanya Aguiñiga, Metabolizing the Border
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Border Tuner
- Postcommodity arts collective
- Richard Misrach, Border Cantos
- Minerva Cuevas, Crossing of the Rio Bravo
- Jaime Carrejo, "Border/Land"
- Guadalupe Maravilla, Requiem For My Border Crossing
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An interview with Alfredo Jaar: Gramsci & Pasolini
Video by Art21. Alfredo Jaar in his installation "Infinite Cell" (2004) in Santiago, Chile, and various works. Through installations, photographs, and community-based projects, Alfredo Jaar explores the public's desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar's work bears witness to military conflicts, political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized and developing nations, often taking the form of an extended meditation or elegy.
VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins & Nick Ravich. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Artwork courtesy: Alfredo Jaar. Thanks: Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile. Created by Smarthistory.
VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins & Nick Ravich. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Artwork courtesy: Alfredo Jaar. Thanks: Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile. Created by Smarthistory.
Video transcript
There are two thinkers, Italian thinkers, that I admire greatly - Antonio Gramsci, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. I was invited to series of exhibitions in Italy last year. And I wanted to make an homage to both men. In the world of culture today, I miss Gramsci and I miss Pasolini. I miss Gramsci because he was one of the first thinkers who really believed in power of culture to affect life, To affect social life, to affect political life. And Pasolini was an artist like no other. He was a thinker, a filmmaker, a poet, a writer, a critic. He was writing and working in all directions. And I miss today Gramsci and Pasolini. What brought me to this piece in particular was, in one of Pasolini's writings, He says that culture is a prison. And we intellectuals have to get out of that prison. Enough of me speaking to you and you speaking to me, Me applauding to you and you applauding to me. Let's get out. Let's reach a larger audience. And I realized that this could have been my motto for many, many years. And for the last 25 years, I have always been looking for different ways of communication. And each work employs a different strategy of communication, in order to reach a larger public. In order to make sense.