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Art Work - “Loving: Elena Rubin” And “Loving: Shoshanna Weinberger”, Laura Kina Dec 2009

Art Work - “Loving: Elena Rubin” And “Loving: Shoshanna Weinberger”, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

OTHER TONGUES: MIXED-RACE WOMEN SPEAK OUT is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century. Contributions engage, document, and/or explore the experiences of being mixed-race, by placing interraciality as the center, rather than periphery, of analysis.

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Exhibition Essay And Retrospective - "Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing", Laura Kina Dec 2009

Exhibition Essay And Retrospective - "Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing", Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Larry Lee. “Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing.” Foundation for Asian American Independent Media 15th Annual Asian American Showcase catalogue. 2010. April 2 - May 30, 2010 Gene Siskel Film Center A retrospective featuring over thirty selected paintings, drawings and textiles (1995-present) from her Refrigerator, Hapa Soap Opera, Loving, Aloha Dreams, and Devon Avenue Sampler series as wellas some early and new works on exhibit for the first time. Kina's art collectively embraces "ikigai" or the Japanese belief of "a sense of life worth living" and reflects her "postcolonial pop aesthetic" as a multiracial Okinawan Jewish artist/educator/scholar living in a South …

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Cover Image And Featured Artist - Zeek: A Jewish Journal Of Thought And Culture, Laura Kina Dec 2009

Cover Image And Featured Artist - Zeek: A Jewish Journal Of Thought And Culture, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Kina, Laura “Sugar.” ZEEK: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture. Winter 2010. Cover image and p.62-65.

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Inside Out: Representations Of Women And Work On Popular Television, Liz Linden, Jen Kennedy Dec 2009

Inside Out: Representations Of Women And Work On Popular Television, Liz Linden, Jen Kennedy

Liz Linden

Inside Out: Pregnant Actresses Playing Nonpregnant Characters, a video montage by artist Liz Linden, was originally exhibited in combination with the video Outside In : Fictional Commercials for Real Products at Art in General in New York in Hay 2009. Both videos use appropriated television clips to point to the formal and ideological mechanisms ~that structure our relationship to materials and content that we are confronted with on an almost daily basis, but which are often overlooked or dismissed as benign or banal. Displayed side-by-side on TV monitors, a reference to the videos' source material, together Inside Out and Outside …

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Hoop, Kate Walker Dec 2009

Hoop, Kate Walker

Kate Walker

In HooP members of the LGBT community in Nelson, New Zealand gather for a mass hula hoop event, in this work about body physicality and visual spectacle. Swaying hips, circular rhythms and shuffling feet resound. Moments of pathos, seriousness and vulnerability are punctured by the innate humour of the mass hula event. This art work confounds the stereotypes of queer communities. The usual reasons queer community might gather are to organise for political or social action, or to socialize without a sense of being 'other'. Something else is happening here. 

The history of video art as a document of community …

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Art Series - Sugar, Laura Kina Dec 2009

Art Series - Sugar, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Set during the 1920’s-1940’s, Laura Kina’s SUGAR paintings (2010-present) recall obake ghost stories and feature Japanese and Okinawan picture brides turned machete carrying sugar cane plantation field laborers on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kina’s paintings take us into a beautiful yet grueling world of manual labor, cane field fires and flumes. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/sugar.html

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