Tuesday, September 25, 2007
DESIRE NO SHACKLES
A Persepolitan sponsored event.
d'Last Studio & Gallery
Location address: 1714 S. Ashland Avenue
1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: 312/922-1400Program description: An exhibition of paintings by Maryam Hashemi, photographs by debut of paintings by Marcia Middleton Kaplan and Amir Normandi present their work about women of traditions in a joint exhibition of paintings, photographs and installations.
Opening date: October 14 at 6 pm / Special event, Artist talk
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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Even in the Age of Information, it would seem that not all information is created equal. We have seen this in the closing of a successful 3-year-old production of Mozart's opera 'Idomeneo', because as Berlin police said, it posed 'incalculable risk' of inciting Islamic fundamentalists to violence. These and other acts of cultural and artistic intimidation are 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, an Iranian-born Muslim, has curated a new exhibition of works by local and international artists entitled, 'Desire No Shackles/ Imagine No Borders', to examine oppression, and the notion of borders in Islam and other contexts.
