MOBILITY AND STASIS in FRASS: A Provocation in Four Parts

photograph from yesterday's event

MOBILITY AND STASIS in FRASS: A Provocation in Four Parts
A conversation on national borders and their impact on the environment, people and imaginations between Gaye Chan, artist of FRASS, an exhibition currently on view at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and
Maxine Burkett / Director of Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy. Associate Professor of UHM Law School
Robert Perkinson / Author of Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2008). Associate Professor of UHM Department of American Studies.
Nandita Sharma / Author of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006). Associate Professor of UHM Department of Sociology.

Honolulu Academy of Arts
900 South Beretania St. Honolulu, HI 96814
Sunday, December 18, 2011 from 3 to 4 pm

MOBILITY AND STASIS is held in concert with Immigrant Movement International, Creative Time, and the Queens Museum of Art, in honor of International Migrants Day.

Gathering a few Eating in Public ANTI-APEC Actions

Free Trade Approach has its Doubters, by Susan Essoyan
Nov 6, 2011 - StarAdvertiser (to readable article)

APEC Sign Incites Controversy At UH Manoa Campus

October 26, 2011 / kitv.com

Review of FRASS in StarAdvertiser, by David Goldberg

[to readable article]

Eating in Public - talking about this, that and APEC

photo courtesy of Cindy Iodice

Eating in Public - talking about this, that and APEC
A video produced by Henry Mochida on the occasion of FORUM (to) FESTIVAL, a part of AlternaAPEC

November 6, 2011 / 5 – 7 pm / University of Hawaii at Manoa, ART auditorium.

Featuring: the Yes Men on identity correction and the power of “agreeing” | Eating in Public on the global commons | Keiko Bonk of PONO | Papua New Guinea artist Jeffry Feeger | Pek-Pek Liberation Front, 3rd Path O`ahu, & Women’s Voices, Women’s Speak| Artist Bob Freitas on The Question of Balance in Hawaii | Hanoi: Public City filmmaker, Micheal DiGregorio | Community Writers Collective | and special appearance of the Earth Village Orchestra. Assistant Professor and organizer of alternaAPEC, Jaimey Hamilton will moderate.

MOBILITY AND STASIS in FRASS: A Provocation in Four Parts

MOBILITY AND STASIS in FRASS: A Provocation in Four Parts
A conversation on national borders and their impact on the environment, people and imaginations between Gaye Chan, artist of FRASS, an exhibition currently on view at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and three scholars.

Sunday, December 18, 2011 from 3 to 4 pm at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Attendees should arrive no later than 2:45pm to view the exhibition prior to the event.
Free admission.

The three scholars are:
Maxine Burkett / Director of Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy. Associate Professor of UHM Law School
Robert Perkinson / Author of Texas Tough: The Rise of a Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2008). Associate Professor of UHM Department of American Studies.
Nandita Sharma / Author of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006). Associate Professor of UHM Department of Sociology.

Honolulu Academy of Arts
900 South Beretania St. Honolulu, HI 96814
(808) 532-8700

MOBILITY AND STASIS is held in concert with Immigrant Movement International, Creative Time, and the Queens Museum of Art, in honor of International Migrants Day.

Inquiries: Gaye Chan