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I’m there. I mean, I’m here.
I’m there. I mean, I’m here. | Performance Invite.
Dear [John Smith],
A very Happy New Year! Hope you are doing well.
From January 16th to 20th, 2012 my exhibition “I’m there. I mean, I’m here.” will be on view at California Institute of the Arts.
A very Happy New Year! Hope you are doing well.
From January 16th to 20th, 2012 my exhibition “I’m there. I mean, I’m here.” will be on view at California Institute of the Arts.
“I’m there. I mean, I’m here.” looks at certain attributes of social relationships over the internet/ digital media. Various reports talk about social media moodiness, transmitting loneliness to one another, and the absence of politeness over the internet. Internet relationships run the risk of alienating people who populate our daily lives, in pursuit of intimacy with our digital network of family and friends.
Moving from one new place to another while growing up made me socially awkward. Unable to connect with people of dissimilar interests or relate to their sense of humor, I became a cynic. Since I began using the internet as a medium of interaction, my relationships with people have only grown stronger. It has been easier sharing secrets, having arguments, or romancing with many.
Technical glitches and human errors make conversations over digital media similar to face-to-face interactions, or interactions through traditional media (cards, letters, land telephone, shouting through windows, knocking on the door, etc.). At the same time, being non-material, such digital intimacy seems nothing more than absurdity.
You are invited to be a part of this exhibition, by being available online on January 16th, 17th (PST 10:00pm- 3:00am) and January 19th (PST 7:30pm- 9:30pm), 2012. I’ll be interacting with you from the gallery, that will also house other extensions of this project. January 19th is the exhibition reception, so those of you are available that day can witness some of the inimitable CalArts madness. :P
Screen Names
Google Talk: vidisha.saini
Skype: vidishasaini
Facebook:Vidisha Saini
Twitter: vidishasaini #IMTHereV
An extension of this project is a blog which both Pooja and I have been contributing to http://long-distance-relationships.tumblr.com. You should have a look at this as well, some of you might find yourself on it!
Do send an reply about your availability. And share my love with the cats and dogs!
Love,
Vidisha.
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The topical idea of Feminism/ FEMME FOR ALL
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Last week there was a show Welcome Home curated by Sofia Arreguin and Valerie Shusterov held at CalArts in honor of the 40th Anniversary of Womanhouse —the 1971 groundbreaking art installation and performance space curated by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, co-founders of CalArts’ Feminist Art Program.
Welcome Home is a group show representing over 30 female artists with works of different media coming together to voice the modern feminist perspective. - Sofia and Valerie.
Some of us had a discomfort with the concept of it being an only woman show. And put a parallel/ complimentary show titled Femme For All (at CalArts), which was put together in an open call for discussion on feminism through art. A collective and collaborative show displaying various voices and positions in an open dialogue about current feminist issues.
I believe when ideas are re-created in a different time and an evolved community, their place needs to be understood in the community then (period they were created in), and a similar experience needs to be shared now (in the time and society you are re-generating the experience). Also, while I went through the Welcome Home show, there was a high heterosexual energy that the show generated. And also a singular structure of power. While the Femme For All show was more fluid, and topical.
A critique which could be put in this situation, I sited while re-reading the preface of Gender Trouble by Judith Butler.
It was and remains my view that any feminist theory that restricts the meaning of gender in the presuppositions of its own practice sets up exclusionary gender norms within feminism, often with homophobic consequences. It seemed to me, and continues to seem, that feminism ought to be careful not to idealize certain expressions of gender that, in turn, produce new forms of hierarchy and exclusion.
Long Distance Relationships
Now that both Pooja (University of Reading) and I (California Institue of the Arts) are FARAWAY from some of our lovers, here we share our story of Long Distance Relationships.
