[-empyre-] Agnes Varda and Angela Davis

[Timothy Conway Murray]

Ana, 

It's amazing that Angela Davis frames your memory of Agnes Varda.  I was active in the Vietnam resistance movement in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time of Angela's arrest.  One of my most vivid memories was the shock across the activist communities over her arrest.  One of my friends happened to live across the street was the county jail where she was said to be held while in transport.  I'll never forget the night where we sat on that porch serenading Angela with songs of protest and struggles, as if she could hear us.  It is this same spirit that Agnes Varda lent to the memory of the Panthers whose contributions to the communities of the Bay Area were legendary.

Tim

Timothy Murray
Director, Cornell Council for the Arts and Curator, CCA Biennial
http://cca.cornell.edu
Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art 
http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu <http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/>
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
 
B-1 West Sibley Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
 
 

On 4/9/19, 8:51 PM, "empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of Ana Valdés" <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:

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