Overview
& New York Times article on Ai Wei Wei - New York Times article: Ai Wei Wei, Dissident Chinese Artist is Detained
Look at - PDF: Globalization
Watch - PBS: Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?; Shirin Neshat and Guillermo Gomez Pena clips
- PBS: Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?, 2011 link (18 minutes) (https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-whos-afraid-of-ai-weiwei/)
- Shirin Neshat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCAssCuOGls& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjqX4rgS9c&feature=youtu.be (this is a video with many of her photographic images)). Feel free to watch others, such as the trailer for her feature-length project "Women without Men."
- Guillermo Gomez Pena (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIfAk-guplA & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHWKXdeC6Vg&feature=youtu.be. Feel free to watch more of his videos on YouTube. You may find Peña's work much more difficult to watch, but please read up on it and give it a chance--our goal is not to make you like it, but be able to talk about it.
- Write - Discussion Post 8: Globalization
After watching the clips on Shirin Neshat and Guillermo Gomez Pena discuss at least 2 ways they each represent concepts of hybridity, diversification, and transnational/diasporic cultures. What are some of the vi suals that each artist uses to highlight these concepts? Make sure you are writing at least 2 paragraphs . (20 points)