Thursday, September 14, 2006
IMAGINE NO BORDERS
A Persepolitan sponsored event.
d'Last Studio & Gallery
Location address: 1714 S. Ashland Avenue
1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: 312/922-1400
Program description: A Mexican-American photographer and social activist along with a French-Canadian painter and human right advocate present their recent works in Pilsen. Also presenting photographs by Tim Arroyo.Opening date: October 14 at 6 pm / Special event, Artist talk
Featured Artists - Imagine No Borders
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Even in the Age of Information, it would seem that not all information is created equal: the closure of a successful 3-year-old production of Mozart's opera 'Idomeneo' because, said Berlin police, it posed 'incalculable risk' of inciting Islamic fundamentalists to violence is a stark reminder that censorship throbs with power while the lifeblood of art is wrung dry. Last year, outrage from Muslim students led Harper College, located just outside Chicago, to remove an exhibition of works by Amir Normandi depicting the oppression women suffer in many Islamic countries. Partly in response, Normandi, himself an Iranian-artists, 'Desire No Shackles/ Imagine No Borders', to examine oppression and the notion of borders in Islam and other contexts.
