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Past Exhibitions: 2005
Patriot
April 15 - June 11, 2005
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The perennially announced
death of nationalism, much like the death of painting, has
become something of a ritual. In both cases one is led to
imagine that an important, hardly accidental connection exists
between nationalism and death per se, painting and death
per se—and indeed this is much easier to understand
in the former case than the latter. Despite Virginia Woolf’s
and Hans Kohn’s ill-fated musings on the subject circa
1930 to Arjun Appadurai's and Antonio Negri's prophecies
of the 1990s, nationalism seems to be a structure (or set
of structures) that is not to be readily overcome, that is
reinforced by its purported closure. Is nationalism then
like a retrovirus, capable of reconfiguring, reshaping itself
for different situations, different times? Is there one (complex)
nationalism or a multiplicity thereof (or even more radically:
merely homonymous referents for the term)? What is the difference
between nationalism and patriotism? And can the former (as
in subaltern and postcolonial nationalist struggles) or the
latter (as in Abbie Hoffman's patriotism) be a progressive
force? Patriot considers this legacy and its agency today,
keeping in view (and on view) its present deployment in a
seemingly ever more restrictive society of control.
Artists included in the exhibition: 16 Beaver Group, Siemon
Allen, Big Noise, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Carla Herrera-Prats,
Ashley Hunt, Amar Kanwar, Pere Portabella.
Photo: Ashley
Hunt
Exhibition Curator/Organizer: Cira Pascual Marquina
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