http://wherewearenow.org Locating Art and Politics in NYC Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:42:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 http://wherewearenow.org/vol1/change/chinoise-a/ http://wherewearenow.org/vol1/change/chinoise-a/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:52:33 +0000 Mark Tribe http://wherewearenow.org/?p=503 As an aesthetic practice, historical re-enactments draw tension between the respective differences of those being compared.  In a contemporized rendition of Jean Luc Godard’s film entitled ‘La Chinoise’ (1967), artist Mark Tribe stages a conversation between a student and a former 60’s radical turned professor set in New York City in late 2004.  For audiences today, the conversation topic—bombing a university—resonates as a specific response to a very specific set of historical conditions that implicate political currents in NYC today.  The project’s title, ‘Chinoise A’, implies the presence of subsequent versions of the same tableau—’Chinoise B,’ ‘Chinoise C,’ etc.—iterated over time and place.

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