Exhibition sponsored and presented by Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University
Conceived and organized by Yong Soon Min, Visiting Artist/Scholar
February 15 - May 31, 2007
Opening reception: February 15, 6-8pm
Exhibition will be held at the 7th Floor Gallery at 41 East 11th Street, where the A/P/A Institute, Institute of African-American Affairs, Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis all reside. (The SCA Department consists of Africana Studies, A/P/A Studies, American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Latino Studies, and Metropolitan Studies.) Viewing hours are M-F 10am-6pm. The exhibition coincides with the College Art Association conference (Feb 14-17) and will be a featured program of the Association of Asian American Studies conference (April 4-8). The exhibition theme parallels the AAAS conference theme, “Crosstown Connections: Asian American Urbanism and Interracial Encounters.”
You are invited to participate in the Exquisite Crisis and Encounters exhibition
During my appointment as Visiting Artist/Scholar at the A/P/A Institute in 2007, I will be organizing an exhibition that commemorates the 15th anniversary of the Los Angeles civil disturbance of 1992 and I invite you to be a part of this project. Your contribution will be part of a wide and multidisciplinary array of creations that pursue the necessary dialogue about the vibrancy and issues that characterize the cosmopolitan contact zones (a la Mary Louise Pratt).
I invite each participant to take a leap of faith and imagination to envision EXQUISITE possibilities, fresh insights, new subjectivities, unexpected questions and astounding pleasures in engaging with the past, present and future.