Heritage Philadelphia Program

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65787150624170996222011-07-07T20:34:23.669-04:00Heritage Philadelphia ProgramHeritage Philadelphia Programhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070622885642549429noreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578715062417099622.post-31131351356088792442010-05-19T16:21:00.003-04:002010-05-19T16:36:03.349-04:00HPP Blog Has MovedThe HPP blog has moved. It is now an integrated part of our website. Please find our most up to date postings at <a href="http://www.pcah.us/heritage/blog">www.pcah.us/heritage/blog.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6578715062417099622-3113135135608879244?l=heritagephila.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Heritage Philadelphia Programhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14070622885642549429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578715062417099622.post-30541431425904052042010-04-01T16:28:00.022-04:002010-04-06T15:28:35.779-04:00Notes from the Venice Biennale and "This World & Nearer Ones" on Governor's Island<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size:85%;">Bill Adair, HPP Director:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:85%;">In October I traveled to the Venice Biennale, the big international art fair in Italy. It’s an amazing and inspiring place to see contemporary art in historic places – some of the most spectacular historic sites one could see anywhere, in fact. The fair is stretched throughout the city – in beautiful palazzi, industrial ruins, and faded commercial buildings. It’s a visual feast in every way. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s-6_wYf7I/AAAAAAAAAc0/IA8o2uIvLOQ/s1600/DSC00271.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s-6_wYf7I/AAAAAAAAAc0/IA8o2uIvLOQ/s200/DSC00271.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457024556757188530" border="0" /></a></p> <meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:85%;" >A delicious Venetian palace. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="line-height: 115%;">Artists are invited to represent their nation in Pavilions, many of which are concentrated in a park on the east side of the city. Other countries choose to find evocative old buildings to house their artist’s projects. A large, curated international survey of contemporary art is installed in the old Arsenale, an 18th century former military complex. It’s a haunting place. </span></span> <br /> <br /> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9w7um9OI/AAAAAAAAAck/lfWE5IjNkhQ/s1600/DSC00243.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9w7um9OI/AAAAAAAAAck/lfWE5IjNkhQ/s200/DSC00243.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457023284365685986" border="0" /></a><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The Arsenale. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Like with any other range of such projects, some of the artists use the historic spaces in Venice to much greater effect than others. Some integrate gorgeous interior details into the work; others utilize rich site-specific stories. To my mind, these three were some of the most successful:</span></p> <br /> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s-7unwsaI/AAAAAAAAAdE/5Seg15vRLeQ/s1600/DSC00256.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s-7unwsaI/AAAAAAAAAdE/5Seg15vRLeQ/s200/DSC00256.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457024569337491874" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > <br /></span><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:85%;">1. Video projections on a scarred Arsenale wall by the American multimedia artist Paul Chan (b. 1973). These poignant figures are animated and move by the viewer slowly, melting into the patina of the wall and conjuring up (for me) painful moments of colonial oppression, illuminating the backbone of European economic power in the 18th-19th centuries.</span></p> <p></p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s-7Pu5n_I/AAAAAAAAAc8/Xz9OhG88JYQ/s1600/DSC00258.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s-7Pu5n_I/AAAAAAAAAc8/Xz9OhG88JYQ/s200/DSC00258.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457024561045938162" border="0" /></a><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:11pt;" > <br /><span style="font-size:85%;">2. Artist Moshekwa Langa (b. 1975) was born in South African and lives in the Netherlands. His work explores the poetics of expatriation and diaspora. He installed these totemic spools of thread in a hall of columns, evoking cross-cultural pillars of industry and creative expression.</span></span> <br /> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s-6Ms3DOI/AAAAAAAAAcs/WWmuCh7uCVk/s1600/DSC00293.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s-6Ms3DOI/AAAAAAAAAcs/WWmuCh7uCVk/s200/DSC00293.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457024543052205282" border="0" /></a> <br /><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:85%;">3. This installation by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles is one of the most effective and affecting contemporary artist’s projects in a historic space that I have ever witnessed. Margolles’ practice involves traveling to the scenes of violent murder in northern Mexico (there have been about 5000 incidents in the last few years) where she soaks up the blood of victims on large sheets of cloth. In Venice, she installed these large bloody “tapestries” on the walls of an eerie and breathtaking 16<sup>th</sup> century palazzo, and hung one outside as a flag. The work is both a beautiful and nauseating illustration of the history of human violence. <br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Laura Koloski, HPP Senior Program Specialist:</span></span> <span style="font-size:85%;"> <br /> <br /></span>  </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Governor’s Island, New York.</span></p> <br /> <br /><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><style>  </style><p class="MsoNormal"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 143px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9wnQR3TI/AAAAAAAAAcc/pQSL5hiaR1s/s200/governorsisland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457023278869765426" border="0" /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 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The project was organized by Creative Time, a New York-based organization that “strives to commission, produce and present the most important, ground-breaking, challenging and exceptional art of our times; art that infiltrates the public realm and engages millions of people in New York City and across the globe.” “This World & Nearer Ones” included the work of artists in variety of media installed in historic buildings and other locations all over the island.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><span><span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9wJMFSsI/AAAAAAAAAcU/_eTa-nYlkig/s1600/BlogGovIslandPic1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9wJMFSsI/AAAAAAAAAcU/_eTa-nYlkig/s200/BlogGovIslandPic1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457023270799100610" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color:black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p></p> <span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9vjCcuoI/AAAAAAAAAcM/p4YfkuXw11M/s1600/BlogGovIslandPic2.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9vjCcuoI/AAAAAAAAAcM/p4YfkuXw11M/s200/BlogGovIslandPic2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457023260558146178" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > <br /></span><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:12pt;color:black;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></span></span></span><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><style>  </style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;">The history of Governor’s Island is pretty interesting, though too long to detail here. Some of the highlights include:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;">--settlement by the Lenape, who called it Pagganck (“Nut Island”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;">--occupation by George Washington’s troops in 1776<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;">--use as the Army’s central recruiting station for the Eastern seaboard during the Civil War, and as a major supply base during the first World War<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;">--birthplace of comedians Dick and Tommy Smothers (1937) and starting point for Wilbur Wright’s first flight over U.S. waters (1909)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >--site of diplomatic meetings between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9vJFlcwI/AAAAAAAAAcE/0iuC_N4gOOE/s1600/BlogGovIslandPic3.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9vJFlcwI/AAAAAAAAAcE/0iuC_N4gOOE/s200/BlogGovIslandPic3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457023253591978754" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9H9Rd14I/AAAAAAAAAb8/fnzOkFLi8Ls/s1600/BlogGovIslandPic4.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9H9Rd14I/AAAAAAAAAb8/fnzOkFLi8Ls/s200/BlogGovIslandPic4.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457022580405688194" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9HfcYO0I/AAAAAAAAAb0/coomNvq2334/s1600/BlogGovIslandPic5.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hKrj0Q75gHU/S7s9HfcYO0I/AAAAAAAAAb0/coomNvq2334/s200/BlogGovIslandPic5.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457022572398394178" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"> <br /></span><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CNMORRI%7E2%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><style>  </style><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Given the long and varied history and fascinating landscape of the island, opportunities for compelling intervention by contemporary artists are clearly present. There were many pieces that spoke to me in some way, like <i>La Tierra de los Libres/The Land of the Free</i>, a video installation by Judi Werthein, who filmed itinerant musicians—refugees from Columbia—performing their interpretation of the <i>Star Spangled Banner</i>. Overall, though, the work didn’t have the degree of site specificity, or reference the specific history of the island and its sites as much as I had hoped. 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