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Crossing
the Line 2009
Julia Mandle
Fabrication of Blindness
Saturday, September 19–Sunday, September
27, 2009
Cabinet, Brooklyn
Special
Events
Exhibition Opening, Sat,
Sept 19, 5–8pm
Artist Talk, Mon,
Sept 21, 7pm
Embroidery Circle, Sat & Sun,
Sept 26 & 27, 1–5pm
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Initiated in residence at Baryshnikov
Arts Center and further developed for this special
exhibition, Julia Mandle’s astonishing Fabrication of
Blindness comes to Cabinet in
Brooklyn.
Inspired by the work of French war photographer Jean-Marc
Bouju, the centerpiece of the installation is a large dark
cloud made out of black military sandbags. On the sandbags
appear words from letters, stories, and poems written by
political detainees, collected by Mandle, and embroidered
during a series of sewing circles in NYC and DC.
Stunning in its emotional impact, Fabrication of Blindness highlights
the ways in which art can play a powerful role in instigating
change and community action. Special programs will accompany
the installation, including new Brooklyn sewing circles.
Artist Talk
Tonight: Monday, September 21
7–9pm
A special conversation with Julia Mandle and Marc
Falkoff editor of Poems
from Guantanamo moderated by Aimee Good, Drawing Center's Director of Education.
Marc Falkoff is a law professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law,
where he teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, and the federal
courts. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was Articles Editor
for the Columbia Law Review and a James Kent Scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in American
Literature from Brandeis University, an M.A. from the University of Michigan,
and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2004 he has represented
17 Yemeni prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Prof. Falkoff was formerly an associate
at Covington & Burling, where he received the firm’s 2005 Charles F.C. Ruff
Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year for his Guantánamo work. He received the Frederick
Douglass Human Rights Award in 2007 from the Southern Center for Human Rights,
and the Bill of Rights in Action Award in 2008 from the Constitutional Rights
Foundation in Chicago. Prof. Falkoff writes and speaks frequently about the
rule of law in the context of the war on terror. The book of prisoner poetry
he edited–Poems
from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak–is a bestselling anthology that has
been translated into a dozen languages. He writes and speaks frequently about
Guantánamo, and has been featured in a variety of media outlets, including the
Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, CNN, the BBC, and
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Venue
Cabinet
300 Nevins Street
(at Union Street)
Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Subway
M, R to Union Street /
F, G to Carroll Street |
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Exhibition
Hours
Tue–Sun, 12–6pm
Information
718 222 8434
cabinetmagazine.org |
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Free and open
to the public |
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Made possible by J Mandle Performance, NYSCA, DCA, Gilbert MacKay Foundation, Henphil Pillsbury Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation,
James E. Robison Foundation,
and with the production
support of KING’s FOUNTAIN |
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Fall
2009 Season Sponsors: American
Airlines, the official airline of FIAF; the Cultural
Services of the French Embassy; Culturesfrance; and the Florence
Gould Foundation |
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Special
thanks to all the Crossing the Line 2009 Partners
and Sponsors
Image © Kevin Rogers |
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