Documents an exhibiton of contemporary art traveling to Ikon Gallery (November 18,1995-January 20,1995), Camden Arts Centre (February 2-March 10, 1996), Irish Museum of Modern Art (April 24-June 30, 1996), Santa Monica Museum of Art (September 6-November 2, 1996) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Ayar y Carmen T. Carrillo Gil (March 1-May 15, 1997). Includes twenty critical essays by Chicano, Irish, and Mexican writers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-278).
Contents:
Introduction : distant relations / Lucy R. Lippard -- Identity/hybridity : ideas behind this project / Trisha Ziff -- Differences, boundaries, community : the Irish in Britain / Mary J. Hickman -- Unapproved roads : post-colonialism and Irish identity / Luke Gibbons -- Overdubbing Ireland / Joan Fowler -- Irony, barbary, sacrilege / Cuauhtémoc Medina -- Chicano montage : art and cultural crisis / Max Benavidez -- Recognising and healing malignant shame / Garrett O'Connor -- The recovery of kitsch / David Lloyd -- Domesticana : the sensibility of Chicana Rasquache / Amelia Mesa-Bains -- We are all Ramona : artist, revolutionaries, and Zapatistas with petticoat / Ellen Calmus -- The tense embrace of the "other" : Mexico and the U.S. / Rubén Martínez -- Méxicamerica : outlaws' borders--literature and the border / Juan Villoro -- Culture, conflict and murals : the Irish case / Bill Rolston -- Contradiction or progression : the mainstreaming of a mural movement / Eva Sperling Cockcroft -- Sceanchai rappers : the wait is over / Juan Arturo Brennan -- Communiqué : voices from the jungle Subcomandante Marcos and culture / Elena Poniatowska -- The border is ... (A manifesto) / Guillermo Gomez-Peña -- Sé an rud é, cultúr, ná an méid a dhéanann sé (Culture is what culture does) / Gerry Adams -- Culture shock / Fionnula Flanagan -- Irish Catholic / Richard Rodriquez. Contents of sound disc: 1. Móin mór (9:50) / Manuel Rocha Iturbide -- 2. Under the green time (18:36) / Roger Doyle.
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