[-empyre-] Agnes Varda and Angela Davis

[Ana Valdés]

Hi Murat I am always on Enpyre but lurking a lot :)
Thanks fot your kind words
Ana

tors 11 apr. 2019 kl. 11:43 skrev Murat Nemet-Nejat <muratnn at gmail.com>:

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> 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
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>> Riverside, CA 92521
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>>
>>
>>
>> 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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