<div dir="ltr">Ana, nice to see you on Empyre again.<div>Murat</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 6:55 PM Gloria Kim <<a href="mailto:gloriakim.cs@gmail.com">gloriakim.cs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">These are incredible memories. What a way to honor these three formidable artists. Here is a story of the magical and intoxicating force that was Agnes Varda.<div><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Summer 2009, Paris, Rue Daguerre. For reasons that are too long to describe here, I found myself walking (unbeknownst to me at the moment) into the home office of Agnes Varda. Coming in from a sunny afternoon into a darkened, cluttered office, my eyes barely adjusted when I made out her unmistakalbe profile in the dimly-lit room. She was perched on a stool. Her profile was traced by lamplight. She was talking on a corded phone, and looked to the door when I entered. I was wearing an old </span><span class="gmail-m_1738940036172341256gmail-text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px">victorian sleeping cap made of ivory crochet and big pink ribbon flowers flopping on each side. She got off the phone, slid off the stool, walked over, touched my arm and said (in F</span><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,".SFNSText-Regular",sans-serif;font-size:14px">rench) "Dear girl. What A beautiful hat. Did your grandmother make it?" I shit my jeans and tried to answer back something as beautiful, clever, and life-altering as the person who was standing before me, but all I could manage was an inaudible "non." A little later (I had a reason to be there but drew everything out in order to be able to be in her presence a little longer) she was showing someone - a "client" she called her - some slides on a large light box table. I stood at the opposite corner of the table pretending to look at something else on a shelf. Of course, although her head was facing downwards, she could feel my gaze. She looked up at me, flashed this unforgettable grin, made little pawing motions with her hands, and playfully growled "Rrrreeeowwwrrr." I don't know what happened after that. I don't know how I exited, when I did, how I got back home nor much of anything else. Agnes Varda, my heart is a heart-shaped potato and it is for you.</span></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_1738940036172341256gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div dir="ltr"><span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Gloria Chan-Sook Kim</span><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Assistant Professor of Media and Culture</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Department of Media and Culture</font></div><div><font color="#000000">3137 INST CHASS </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">South Building</span></div><div><font color="#000000">University of California-Riverside</font></div><div><font color="#000000">900 University Avenue</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Riverside, CA 92521</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div><div></div></div><div style="font-size:13px"></div></div><div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:35 PM Renate Ferro <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
Ana wrote; <br>
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“But I think we all share a common link made by small chains of<br>
curiosity and sharing, a kind of cultural mapping where figures as Varda,<br>
Quintanilla, Schneemann and Hammer are interlaced.”<br>
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Dear Ana what a beautiful post after a long day. I remember listening to a charged lecture by Angela Davis in the mid-80’s. She spent a good part of her lecture talking about the inequities within the Panther group between men and women. It was a strong and clear lecture with a strong message at at time when there were strikingly strong rifts between white women and women of color in the United States. <br>
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Thank you so much for sharing your own political history which you have done somewhat here on –empyre-over the years. I continue to be in awe of your bravery and experiences. Here is a link to an interesting Question and Answer period about the Panther film. <br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo81Grb8A9Y" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo81Grb8A9Y</a><br>
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Really looking forward to hearing more about your influences Ana. <br>
Renate<br>
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Renate Ferro<br>
Visiting Associate Professor<br>
Director of Undergraduate Studies<br>
Department of Art<br>
Tjaden Hall 306<br>
<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a><br>
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