[-empyre-] Agnes Varda and Angela Davis

[Murat Nemet-Nejat]

Ana, nice to see you on Empyre again.
Murat

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 6:55 PM Gloria Kim <gloriakim.cs at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
> 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 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 French) "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.
>
>
> Gloria Chan-Sook Kim
> Assistant Professor of Media and Culture
> Department of Media and Culture
> 3137 INST CHASS South Building
> University of California-Riverside
> 900 University Avenue
> Riverside, CA 92521
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:35 PM Renate Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu> wrote:
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>> Ana wrote;
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>> “But I think we all share a common link made by small chains of
>> curiosity and sharing, a kind of cultural mapping where figures as Varda,
>> Quintanilla, Schneemann and Hammer are interlaced.”
>> <Snip>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo81Grb8A9Y
>>
>> Really looking forward to hearing more about your influences Ana.
>> Renate
>>
>>
>> Renate Ferro
>> Visiting Associate Professor
>> Director of Undergraduate Studies
>> Department of Art
>> Tjaden Hall 306
>> rferro at cornell.edu
>>
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