Arts

May 4 – 11, 2018 | Evenings, beginning at Sundown

South Wall of Herrick Chapel, Outside Academic Commons

Opening Reception: May 4, 7:30-9:30pm | Academic Commons Patio

May 4 – 11, 2018 | Evenings, beginning at Sundown

South Wall of Herrick Chapel, Outside Academic Commons

Opening Reception: May 4, 7:30-9:30pm | Academic Commons Patio

May 4 – 11, 2018 | Evenings, beginning at Sundown

South Wall of Herrick Chapel, Outside Academic Commons

Opening Reception: May 4, 7:30-9:30pm | Academic Commons Patio

May 4 – 11, 2018 | Evenings, beginning at Sundown

South Wall of Herrick Chapel, Outside Academic Commons

Opening Reception: May 4, 7:30-9:30pm | Academic Commons Patio

The workshop will ask how have the physical and social sciences, architecture, media, and other disciplines co-produced "official" models and "maps" of place, body, and identity that "precede the territory," erasing existent ecology, experience, difference, and story? How have cartographic and documentary practices become "facts," driven by political economic agents and agendas?

The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory,... that engenders the territory, and...it is the territory whose shreds slowly rot across the extent of the map."  - Jean Baudrillard, in Simulacra and Simulation

Co-curated by Occidental Associate Professor of Art and Art History Nancy Mithlo, this historic exhibition will be presented in the same space where the photos were taken over 40 years ago and shares a story of hope, community and resilience of America’s first and often forgotten people. UAII was established in 1974 to provide shelter, food, and a welcoming place for American Indians living on the streets of Skid Row, the result of the federal relocation program (1956-1979) that encouraged them to leave their

directed by Jamie Angell

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