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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Political Minded 3 -- It’s Bigger Than You.
Political Art Installation By HVW8
Presented By Puma
October 13th-17th, 2004
Guerilla Gallery Open 12-6pm daily
184 Orchard Street, NYC
Opening Party: Wed Oct. 13th 6:30pm
Closing Party: Sun, Oct. 17th, 4pm
One off Collectibles by PUMA at opening party only
Revolutionary Tunes By:
DJ Language (Negroclash)
DJ Lindsey Caldwell (Negroclash)
DJ Damon Bell (HVW8/Seasons Recordings)
Brought to you by:
PUMA, Heavyweight, Cold Water Flat
The "Political Minded" Series by Heavyweight
Heavyweight Art Installation first unveiled its latest series, Political Minded, in 2003 in San Francisco at the RedFive Gallery. The second installment came a year later in Los Angeles’s 33 1/3 Books and Gallery in the spring of 2004, followed by an independently produced exposition in Montreal on July 7th, 2004. The next installment, Political Minded III, is due to open for October 13th 2004 in New York City.
The series is a collection of portraits and hommages of people, activists, political figures and cultural icons whose work, lives and sometimes their deaths reveal vital details about the reality of our world and the shape of our own social political perspectives.
For the past five years, Heavyweight Art intallation’s live painting canvases have featured the portraits of favorite musical influences and cultural icons, writers, and artists celebrating their contributions to our cultural lives. In the Political Minded series - now created in studio, as well as site specific installations, we have directed the focus on the lives of people who help define the meaning of activism and/or whose work or careers reveal information about a political climate that can often be missed in corporate media. The figures represent stories in which people insist on putting their careers, lives and freedom at stake in order to provide qualified, educated information about important world situations and strife. Others whose confrontations with policy, authority and inhumane idealologies highlight the struggle against injustice, and in some cases their actions typifying the qualities that we would hope of from our own leaders, society and policies. Some figures represent voices of impassioned leadership, the goals for progressive political objectives through basic democratic principles, or the yearning of the oppressed to be heard.
The ongoing series consists, so far, of portraits of:
CESAR E. CHAVEZ
SHIRIN EBADI
PAUL KRUGMAN
SALVADOR ALLENDE
General ROMEO DALLAIRE
NOAM CHOMSKY
RENE LEVESQUE
FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI
HELEN THOMAS Senior White House Correspondent
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Topic: Political Minded 3 - NYC
