"Slavery in the Everyday, Resistance as Art"
Framed Photographs and Informational Booth
Art Exhibit at the Worth Ryder Gallery
Out of TimeSpace Symposium, Nov. 6-16, 2007
Included at the exhibit: The photographs were produced
from the photography, cartooning, and screen printing workshop
series by Students & Artists Fighting to End Human Slavery
(SAFEHS). "Human Slavery in the Everyday, Resistance as
Art" delineates how human slavery is a normalized violence
that is invisibilized in the everyday. While in the everyday
there are impressions of warnings that are captured in the images
of a plant breaking through a fence to warning sings, it is
through the survivor that real testimonies of violences are
articulated. The objective of SAFEHS is to empower students/survivors/the
community/artists, to recognize their agency in promoting social
change and abolshing human slavery through the arts. Through
art, may the community also bear witness to the struggle of
the survivor and how such historic violences are interconnected
with histories of racism, sexism, colonialism, and other violences.
Provided to educate the community on "Modern Day Slavery"
are brochures from local and national agencies. Also included
in this display (was) the photographic images by Christine Stark,
a survivor of trafficking and prostitution.
List of contributors: Albert Nghiem, Alex
Wong, Amy Chong, Brian Kolm with Atomic Bear Press, Christine
Stark, Cindy Gieng, Diana Candray, Elizabeth Guerrero, Henry
Young, Ingrid Villalobos, Kingsley Kwong, Jamie Navarro, Jennifer
Colker, Kenneth Mo, Robert Lima, and Sam San.
Please visit the following website for images
of Christine Stark's work that was included in the exhibit.
Clicking this link will take you away from this website, click
the "back" button to return: http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/c-images.html
If you are unable to view the images,
click "view all images" and it will open in a new
window.
Images from Cartooning & Screen
Printing Workshops "Cartooning Yesterday, Today, &
Tomorrow" (Oct. 10) and "Impressions of Human Slavery"
(Oct. 2 and 9)
Selected images also featured in the
2007 Worth Ryder Exhibit. For details on the workshops, visit:
Workshop Details
SAFEHS
would like to give many thanks to the Mission Cultural Center
for Latino Arts, the Cartoon Art Museum and Atomic Bear Press,
San Francisco Women's Film Festival, the Visuality & Alterity
working Group at UC Berkeley, Mary Estes, Jennifer Reimer, Craig
Perez, and Rose Khor.
