Port Huron Project
LACE (Los Angeles) Port Huron Project Video Installation Opens
Fall of World Trade: Drifting in the New Democracy
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César Chávez Video in Times Square MTV Screen
A five-minute video based on Port Huron Project 4: We Are Also Responsible, is currently showing on MTV’s giant high-definition video screen in Times Square on the East side of Broadway, between 44th and 45th Streets. The video plays at the top of the hour several times each day. Click here for the schedule. Thanks to CREATIVE TIME for setting this up!
Port Huron Project via Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
By Christopher Knight, Times Art Critic
July 25, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/theguide/art/la-et-galleries25-2008jul25,0,321940...
Early Saturday evening, Providence, R.I.-based artist Mark Tribe orchestrated a reenactment of a 1971 speech by Chicano labor activist César Chávez protesting the Vietnam War. On the South Lawn of Exposition Park, midway between the Natural History Museum and the Coliseum, a call went out for "organized and disciplined nonviolent action," aimed squarely at those "seeking [their] manhood in affluence and war."
Artists re-create seminal events
Artists re-create seminal events from the turbulent decade for Port Huron Project.
By Diane Haithman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 19, 2008
On May 2, 1971, about 200 uniformed police surrounded the perimeter of
Exposition Park while 30-odd plainclothes officers circulated through the
crowd as farm labor
leader César Chávez delivered a brief but impassioned speech decrying the
Port Huron Project
upcoming reenactments
Part of Creative Time's 2008 public art initiative
Democracy in America: The National Campaign
http://www.nothing.org/porthuronproject/index.html
Cesar Chavez
WE ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE
Based on a 1971 speech by César Chávez
(Performance by Ricardo Dominguez)
6:00 PM, Saturday, July 19, 2008
South Lawn, Exposition Park, Los Angeles
