MADE IN THE USA
The Sameness In Us by Juri Morioka Curated by David Gibson The Educational Alliance 197 East Broadway, New York [One block East of where Canal and Essex Streets meet] September 18-November 23, 2007 Shelly Bahl (Canada/India) Ula Einstein (Switzerland) Nancy Friedemann (Colombia) Tine Kindermann (Germany) Chang-jin Lee (Korea) Juri Morioka (Japan) Hannes Priesch (Austria) Flavia Souza (Brazil) Yona Verwer (Netherlands) The ‘ USA ’ of the title is a more rarified territory than one might think. Its area is measured in blocks, not square miles. But more than that, it is measured by the variety of nationalities that make residence here, and the tradition, however altered in recent years, of emigration. This exhibition explores the nature of idiosyncrasy in consideration of ideological and cultural definitions of identity. Who is the individual and how do many disparate entities become a single community? -- How does that community come to embody a meaningful representation of Americ...