DISPOSABLE: Ciudad Juárez and the War on Women
9/10/2010 - 9/21/2010
Opening Reception:09/10/2010 6-8PM
Featured Artists
Peggy AdamHayden Dunham
BioHayden Dunham is from Austin Texas and spent her youth making blanket forts and animal clothes for her and her friends. In 2006 she traded blue bonnets for the bright lights of the big apple and started attending classes at NYU regarding psychology, visual aesthetics and environmental studies. She enjoys making things, which usually involve large quantities of scavenged materials and down time. Her work addresses empowerment strategies, home spaces and discomfort. Right now she is very interested in how individuals use secrets or sacred objects to protect themselves from their environment. Hayden can be found taking urban children on invisible adventures, sitting with her sewing machine or practicing telekinesis.Websitewww.haydendunham.comKeith Miller
BioKeith Miller is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, and filmaker. This is the second show he has curated addresing the situation in Ciudad Juárez.WebsiteChris NolanLina Palotta
BioLina Pallotta is an Italian photographer working and living in NYC. Since 1994 she has focused on the women working in the maquiladoras at the Mex/USA border. For this project she was awarded a grant, The Catalogue Project 1998 by the New York Foundation for the Arts, to publish "Piedras Negras".Websitewww.linapalotta.comPatricia Yossen
Bio"Some of the bodies had the victims clothes and shoes laid out near them. Police were unconvinced. Others felt they didn't care". " they found "ripped or cut women's underwear, at least four pairs of shoes, a dress, human hair, and a newspaper article that had photos and descriptions of missing women from Cd. Juarez." "Bound with their own shoelaces & partially clothed, their shoes would be placed almost sentimentally beside their corpses". "These bodies are known as “*encobijados*.” In the rooms are discarded sandals and odd shoes".Websitewww.patriciayossen.comTali Weinberg
BioIn my practice of weaving and stitching, I explore how labor rights, community, ecology, and meaning shape and are shaped by the craft of turning fibers into textiles. I consider the web of production, circulation, meaning-making, consumption, and use that enables me to bring a piece into being; and how objects and values circulate through spaces of homes, bodies, and art worlds. My practice of making is committed to elevating social change as both collective and individual action in an interdependent world. A Brooklyn-based artist and activist, my practice of making emerges in conversation with my past work in human rights and fair trade advocacy, community organizing, and grassroots development, including time living in Bombay, India working with a sex-worker rights organization.Websitewww.taliweinberg.comAmia YokoyamaBioAmia is an artist and graduate of Gallatin. |
