Lecture 003

Time capsel: immigrants go back home unable to grasp change in country

Migration is key in human history, should not be picked out.

Ming Fei

Ming Fei: Born in Shanghai, lived in New York.

• Mythical Plants, Forest

• inspired by Chinese green market

• put meanings in language in fruit

• imaginary plants as imaginary homeland

QUESTION: Ming Fei Orientalism?

Botanic: crop relocation, genetic modification, cross plants with foreign plants

Monkey: stuck in head in guards story

Zarina Hashmi: Indian born sculpter, printmaker

• home: an idea (warmth, food) instead of place

• home, place, travel, time

• discrimination against religion

• Indian Muslim, but secular

• "house on wheel": nomadic home

• "house with four walls": reference memory tail of family member

  • conflict between religious and non-religious
  • Islamization program
  • "four walls" play on language, women stay covered in walls of home

• maps prints: mapping dislocation, travel her own travel in her life

• "Displaced Home, Displaced People": displaced home and people, images of refugee, walking, shared refugee status. Knots as marking time

• map cities: Grozny, Islamicfobia, anti-muslim violence. destruction of cities. kill unarmed survillians

Allan deSouza:

• former colonial subject

• "Threshold"

Y.David Chung: Korean American

• multi-cultural vision

• mixture of race and language

Y.David Chung

• LA Riota