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In her new post, “The Road Not Taken”, Joelle Zigman, a student at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where she is pursuing a double degree in English and music composition, illustrates…
Shelley Miller: REFINING HISTORY - A continued investigation into the history of sugar and its links to slavery and colonization. Works begun in Brazil between 2006-2009 are furthered here with a move from her earlier baking references into the digital as ideas of historicity and degradation over time are amplified and extended. The persistent reference in Miller’s work to the traditionally coded feminine practice of baking is augmented with the unpacking of other and exchange. Much of these works reference traditional azulejo tile murals that are common in both Portuguese and Brazilian culture and depict a colonial past that links these cultures together. Miller’s sugar facsimiles of these dystopian decorative architectural references address larger issues of excess, desire, waste, consumption and specifically here, the connection between the history of sugar with the history of slavery.
The FOFA GAllery exhibition will feature large scale photographic prints of “The Wealth of Some and the Ruin of Others”, a ceramic tile installation, “Historia Azulejado”, cast sugar sculptures, and a multimedia installation of “Cargo” that allows viewers to overlay images of the sugar tile mural with image tiles from varying states of decay. The images capture the essence of the original sugar mural and speak to the ephemeral nature of memory and history. By allowing visitors to move the square image tiles, Miller is encouraging the retelling of history as how images are juxtaposed or omitted can greatly modify interpretation, not unlike the construction and destruction of memory and history itself. (via FOFA GALLERY)
I loved this work when I first saw pictures of it some months ago, but had no idea it was being shown in my own school’s gallery until just right now! Apparently the prof who heads up the greenhouse internship I’m doing is giving a talk with this artist and a chef next week, about food and how their work intersects. I think I ought to go to this.
WHAT / QUOI
Join in on the conversation as an artist, a chef, and a professor of food politics whip up a batch of cupcakes made from fair trade, locally sourced products and explore ideas at the intersections of their work.
WHO / QUI
Shelley Miller, Visual Artist and Educator
Blake Mackay, Chef and Food Stylist
Dr. Satoshi Ikeda, Canada Research Chair in the Sociology of Global Futures
DATE
Tuesday August 10th / Mardi le 10 août
LOCATION / ENDROIT
La Galerie FOFA Gallery, Concordia Univeristy, 1455 Boul De Maisonneuve Ouest, EV 1-715
TIME / HEURE
7 :00 PM to 9:00PM / 19:00 à 21:00
thought some of you might appreciate this one…
TED, the digital world’s most prominent aggregator of big ideas, thinks it can resolve complaints that its programs are male-dominated by creating a one-off conference, TEDWomen, that focuses on ideas by and about women. From an organization that claims to be all about cutting-edge ideas, TED’s decision displays simplistic, outdated, and unenlightened thinking. Despite its good intentions, TED’s Women conference demonstrates the very discrimination it is supposed to address.
Creating a special conference just for women demonstrates that TED organizers think that “women-centered ideas,” whatever these might be, are somehow less interesting and less important than other ideas. Rather than adding more women presenters and more of women’s interests directly to TED’s center stage, organizers have created a Women’s conference to serve as arm candy for the conference about real ideas —the ideas presented by and centered on those who are not women, a group otherwise known as men.
CV Harquail: Separate Still Isn’t Equal: Sexism Among TED Conferences
I really don’t get how some people men don’t get it.
Admittedly, I don’t know how topics/speakers are chosen, but I would hope there would be some sort of blind jury process. I mean if that’s the case and it’s still all dudes, I might be less annoyed.
Also, I don’t care what they say, it *is* elitist, so why is anyone surprised it’s also sexist?
Improv Everywhere stages reenactment of Princess Leia/Darth Vader scene on the subway - http://mag.ma/andrew/680754 #starwars
I especially like that the scene starts at stop 23
I have to agreeProtest Lap Dance
Best protest chant I’ve ever heard.
your personality is open sourcedictionaryofobscuresorrows:the bug fix n. the satisfaction of updating software, which gains effortless new features inside the cocoon of the progress bar, whereas your personality—a beta version with compatibility issues, unstable memory and a quirky interface—is open source, trusting peers to collaboratively debug your emotional source code until it’s stable enough for official release into adulthood.
This tumblr is lols guys. Follow it.
I saw this on the blog of someone in the process of adopting internationally:
Mom’s Without Boarders.
You know, I don’t really want to live in a fascist grammarian dictatorship where people have to grasp how the English language is used and punctuated before they are allowed to become parents. Except I kind of do. Maybe. Sometimes.
I would totally live in said fascist grammarian dictatorship. (via bluishorange)I might live there, too. Maybe. But what if it really was “Mom’s Without Borders”? My mom has few boundaries, so maybe this was just a statement of fact. Mom is without borders. (via me3dia)
Or maybe mom just evicted the people who were renting rooms in her house. And she is now without boarders. Totally plausible. Snobs. (via successisnotanoption)
And in your scenario it’s a complete sentence to boot. Let’s go with it! (via bluishorange)
She’s just a resentful empty nester. That’s why she is adopting.
I like that there is a Chi agenda to push and that you are pushing it06/20/10 11:03 AM
Some use a fence to corral their dogs, others use a free weight.
See, and everyone’s all “blah blah Chihuahuas are such yappy ankle-biters!” But if tying your dog to a free weight in your yard is emblematic of how you treat it, then OF FUCKING COURSE you’re going to get a yappy ankle-biter.
Boy, I’m really pushing the Chi agenda these days, aren’t I?
