In my own anticipation of crossing borders, the hype about the new Indiana Jones and the Oppenheimer movies are beginning to bother me. Did they really make a full-length movie about Oppenheimer's tortured genius without representing a single Japanese person?
Anyway--walking, (window) shopping, and snacking my way through downtown East Lansing with JG today, Stephanie Syjuco's "Rogue States" at The Broad Museum really spoke to me. It's an installation of flags of fictional nation states from movies (incl. "Hatay" from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). A "convention of collective anxiety" about nations that are positioned as "terrorist, backward, resistant, or unstable."
Pic: My second time with Stephanie Syjuco's "Rogue States" this year. The first time was with EM.
4 comments:
How old were you when you left India? That's a long list of places you've lived on the home page of your blog. If you ever need a blog topic, I'd love to see a timeline of them.
I moved a lot as a child, not so much as an adult.
Nice link.
I would second StephLove's comment. I'd love a little more backstory about your life. I'm a relatively new reader and the backlog of your blog is intimidating!
What more about little old me :)?!?
I'll definitely keep that idea in mind, StephLove and NGS.
Thanks, Gillian--I thought it was quite interesting.
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