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Course: Global cultures 1980–now > Unit 1
Lesson 8: Revisiting histories- Freddy Rodríguez, Paradise for a Tourist Brochure
- María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Spoken Softly with Mama
- Christian Boltanski, Personnes, 2010
- Danh Vo, We the People
- Betye Saar, Liberation of Aunt Jemima
- Reflecting on "We the People"
- Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion
- Walker, Darkytown Rebellion
- Kara Walker on the dark side of imagination
- Romance novels and slave narratives: Kara Walker imagines herself in a book
- Kara Walker, "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby"
- Turning Uncle Tom's Cabin upside down, Alison Saar's Topsy and the Golden Fleece
- An interview with Kerry James Marshall about his series Mementos
- Kerry James Marshall, Now And Forever; Elizabeth Alexander, "American Song," Washington National Cathedral
- Speaking to past and present, Clarissa Rizal’s Resilience Robe
- Luis Tapia, Corazón Negro
- Tenzing Rigdol, Pin drop silence: Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara
- An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs, Thornton Dial's Blood and Meat
- Titus Kaphar, The Cost of Removal
- Wendy Red Star, 1880 Crow Peace Delegation
- rafa esparza, Border Wash—after Leonard Nadel, 1956
- Yee I-Lann, Picturing Power #6…
- Superman, World War II, and Japanese-American experience (Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941)
- Fred Wilson’s museum interventions
- Ken Gonzales-Day, Erased Lynching Series
- History and deception: Kenseth Armstead’s Surrender Yorktown 1781
- Carrie Mae Weems on her series "From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried"
- Lam Tung Pang on "A Day of Two Suns (2019)"
- Abdoulaye Ndoye, Ahmed Baba
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Lam Tung Pang on "A Day of Two Suns (2019)"
Lam Tung Pang is a Hong Kong-based artist whose work encompasses painting, drawing, performance, video, and installation. Assembling traditional iconography and found objects, Lam creates layered allegorical landscapes that engage themes of history, memory, and time. These works capture the nuanced emotions that seep out from beneath the weight of drastic political change. Lam received his BFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his MFA from Central Saint Martins in London.
A day of two Suns (2019) is an ensemble of plywood mountain sculptures and found objects staged around a large paper screen, upon which videos are projected on either side. These ever-shifting compositions of faded, seemingly still videos, which depict panoramic sights in Hong Kong, reflect Lam Tung Pang’s memories of his home. The assorted objects cast shadows that obscure these memories onscreen, evoking our scattered recollection of the disappearing past. The screen and geographical motifs reference classical Chinese landscape painting, in which Lam was trained. Created by Asian Art Museum.
A day of two Suns (2019) is an ensemble of plywood mountain sculptures and found objects staged around a large paper screen, upon which videos are projected on either side. These ever-shifting compositions of faded, seemingly still videos, which depict panoramic sights in Hong Kong, reflect Lam Tung Pang’s memories of his home. The assorted objects cast shadows that obscure these memories onscreen, evoking our scattered recollection of the disappearing past. The screen and geographical motifs reference classical Chinese landscape painting, in which Lam was trained. Created by Asian Art Museum.