~~~CONTINUING EVENTS~~~
~~~NEW EVENTS~~~
Special
Lecture: "Religious Fundamentalism and the Trade Union
Movement in Kanpur City, India."
Tuesday, June 8, 3:30pm, Gowen 1B.
Subhashini Ali is an important labor leader in North India. A member of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, she has been actively involved in struggles of workers from the textile and leather industries as well as from the unorganized sector. Subhashini is a former Member of Parliament from the Communist Party (Marxist) from Kanpur, a city known for its trade union movement and struggles. In addition, She is recognized throughout the country for her work with women's groups. Subashini was a founding delegate to the All India Democratic Women's Association. The largest women's organization in India, AIDWA has a mass membership of almost three million women, chiefly comprised of the rural poor. In the cities, AIDWA is based mostly in the slums and working-class colonies. Subhashini has continued to take up their issues and struggles, while tackling questions of caste and communal divisions among workers, divisions that have become accentuated by the recent liberalization of the Indian economy. In 1992, Subhashini was nominated a member of the newly constituted National Commission for Women, the only activist on the Commission. In that capacity, she initiated a study of the effects on the Public Distribution System of economic liberalization. Most of Subhashini's work has been local, working with trade unions in Kanpur and building a women's organization in the city and a few other places in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Aside from her work with labor, some of the diverse issues in which Subhashini has been involved include the effects of economic liberalization on poor women, religious fundamentalism, caste oppression, and rape and other atrocities against women.
Special
Event: The Second Annual Race Unity Day.
Sunday, June 13, 12:00pm to 5:30pm,
Factoria Mall.
Featured groups:
There will also be a children's craft table, face painters, caricature drawings by 'Doodles by Daryl', ball toss and a cultural "cake" walk.
This free event is sponsored by the Baha'is of Puget Sound, City of Bellevue Parks & Community Services Department Cultural Diversity Program, Factoria Mall, Diversity Dance Workshop, and Minuteman Press in Redmond & Seattle (Union). For more information, call the Bellevue Cultural Diversity Office at (425) 452-2835.
Exhibit
-- "Future Forward: Projects in New Media." Jennifer
Steinkamp.
Fri., May 11 to Sun., Oct. 3; 11:00am
to 5:00pm every day, on Thur. until 8:00pm; Henry Art Gallery,
East Gallery.
In Jennifer Steinkamp's art, purely optical phenomenon becomes profoundly physical. Jennifer Steinkamp has created the first completed project for the Henry Art Gallery as part of a series that commissions new works by artists working with technology. Steinkamp has built a curved scrim and uses rear-screen projection to alter a vertical space with rhythmically pulsing patterned light. The re-materialized space fluctuates between presenting itself as an object and as a background. Steinkamp uses shifts in focus, time, pattern, color and sound to explore the position and subjectivity of the spectator in an environment of changing colors and patterns. Her use of technology challenges our expectations of machine-dependent art and of our sensations and response as organic beings; in the process, she renews the experience of abstraction.
Like early abstract filmmakers, such as Hollis Frampton, and Light and Space artists, James Turrell and Robert Irwin, Steinkamp is concerned with the experience of abstract visual phenomenon. Using what she terms "found object" software, Steinkamp creates projected light installations that are abstract while still acknowledging the spectator, sometimes with interactivity and often by incorporating the rhythms of breathing or swallowing, or of the heart beating. Steinkamp, who has produced computer-animation for both Disney and the band U2, says, "My work is really about using complex technology in a basic way. My art is personal. I don't want the equipment to take over. I could do amazing Jurassic Park things but I don't do that. Something I'm really interested in is a considered view of abstraction."
The Projects in New Media series will also include two additional commissions and residencies: IŅigo Manglano-Ovalle in July and Tony Oursler in November. This series of exhibitions is sponsored in part by a Creation & Presentation Program grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, allowing for each artist to travel to Seattle to participate in a collaborative residency. During these three-week visits, artists have the opportunity to work with University of Washington departments and private companies engaged in technologies relating to their work, as well as attend workshops and other public programs. Jennifer Steinkamp's project is also sponsored by the Seattle Arts Commission.
Admission -- General: $3.50 - $5. Free for gallery members, UW students, faculty, staff with ID, high school/college students with ID, children 13 and under.
For more information, see the full article at the Henry Art Gallery's website.
To request disability
accommodations, contact the office of the ADA Coordinator, at
least ten days in advance of the event.
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