useful essay 3 links

I will add to this post as I continue commenting on your blogs. Check back soon for more.

damali ayo
audio piece: Living Flag: LINK to MP3

How does this compare to the YouTube video?
How is the title of the piece connected to her project?

Note that ayo spells her name in all lower case.

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Gabriel Gomez-Pena/Coco Fusco

Check out this piece from a show called Radio Diaries. Click on the photo to hear the MP3.
http://radiodiariespodcast.blogspot.com/2007/05/pygmy-in-zoo.html

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Jeremy Deller

He won the Turner Prize, one of the top art prizes in the UK.
Here's is more info from the Tate Britain museum website: LINK

A profile on Deller in The Guardian newspaper: LINK

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The Yes Men

Some clips are on-line, but if you are writing about this it would help you to watch the whole movie. Ask me for my copy.

In this interview with Bill Moyers, they address the ethics of their projects: LINK

The Yes Men, like Ayo and Fusco/Gomez-Pena, use INVSIBLE THEATER, a concept developed by Augusto Boal: http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/1999/12/glossary_of_ter_1.php

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damali ayo, Adrian Piper , Gabriel Gomez-Pena/Coco Fusco

White people and hip-hop: a radio podcast
http://www.addictedtorace.com/?p=136
This is an interview with the author of a book that's in the SU library collection:
Other people's property : a shadow history of hip-hop in white America - Jason Tanz

another interesting book in the SU library collection:
Why white kids love hip-hop : wankstas, wiggers, wannabes, and the new reality of race in America - Bakari Kitwana

http://www.wiretapmag.org/race/43254/
suggested by Justin Arena

What is white privilege? What does white privilege have to do with reparations?
Please see this:
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/whiteprivilege.htm

It is linked from here: http://whiteprivilege.com
The NPR story at the top of the blog is a really good example.

Please also see the big project from Brown University, acknowledging their connection to the slave trade. Even though people who go to school and teach at Brown may not be directly descended from slave owners, they still benefit from the fact that this slave-trading family left the money to build their school.
http://www.brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/

What if you consider that this whole country was built on the profits of the slave trade?

Acknowledging the profits American society has made from slavery is happening on a city-wide level as well. It's called the Slavery-Era Disclosure Ordinance:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/62902

Here is an another project all about Chicago's Slavery-Era Disclosure Ordinance made by Keith and Mendi Obadike, who's Ebay project we looked at before:
http://bighouse.northwestern.edu/

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Adrian Piper

Cornered was a video installation, here is documentation on Google Video: http://tinyurl.com/2a8qoj