Course Description
This course will investigate the ways in which artists have presented narratives in the public realm and the organizations that have made the presentation of those works central to their curatorial practices over the last 40 years. Focusing on recent works presented in New York’s public spaces by Creative Time, The Public Art Fund, the Percent for Art Program, Arts for Transit and other non-profits organizations, this course will look at what it meant to tell stories and open discourses that challenged or interrogated widely-held value systems, the events and the politics of their time. In addition to the specifics of current and other key works and projects, we will discuss the conditions that governed the development of public performance, temporary and permanent installations, the ways in which those works were influenced by public approval processes and governmental agencies, media coverage and community response. Each student’s final project will be an on-line proposal for an exhibition that conveys a “narrative“ developed in the context of this course, referencing other relevant works .
Story: Trump Administration’s fear of immigrants
ReplyDeleteICE’s Deportation of El Salvadorian Mother & Daughter
A judge learns of the Trump administration’s deportation of a mother and daughter who were fleeing domestic and gang violence and whose case challenges the Trump administration’s asylum-seeking restriction. The judge demanded that the administration turn the plane around and bring them back to the US. He ordered the government to stop removing plaintiffs in the case from the country who are seeking protection from gang and domestic violence.
They were deported anyway, to judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s contempt.
He orders the government to return them forthwith.
The judge says, “Somebody in pursuit of justice who has alleged a credible fear in her mind and is seeking justice in a United States is court is spirited away while her attorneys are arguing for justice for her? It’s outrageous.”
The plame was not able to turn around before landing, but the mother and daughter were flown back to the US after landing and were kept in a detention center in Texas
The narrative of this story takes on the issue of deportation in general and is introduced as many of these stories are, in court,except in this case, the mother and daughter were not present in court, as they had been prematurely removed and taken to El Salvador. It is important to understand the background of the mother and daughter, and many people that end up in this position due to the Trump administration, are fleeing danger, but are deported to places in which they have a credible fear for their lives without having been given a proper opportunity to make their case in the US.