2 paragraph discussion post on hybridity, diversification, and transnational/diasporic cultures

Read – Chapter 10:The Global Flow of Visual Culture (pp. 379–424)

& New York Times article on Ai Wei Wei – New York Times article: Ai Wei Wei, Dissident Chinese Artist is Detained

WeiWei Article

Look at – PDF: Globalization

Watch – PBS: Who’s Afraid of Ai Weiwei?; Shirin Neshat and Guillermo Gomez Pena clips

– PBS: Who’s Afraid of Ai Weiwei?, 2011 link (18 minutes) (https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-whos-afraid-of-ai-weiwei/)

– Shirin Neshat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCAssCuOGls& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjqX4rgS9c&feature=youtu.be (this is a video with many of her photographic images)). Feel free to watch others, such as the trailer for her feature-length project “Women without Men.”

– Guillermo Gomez Pena (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIfAk-guplA & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHWKXdeC6Vg&feature=youtu.be. Feel free to watch more of his videos on YouTube. You may find Peña’s work much more difficult to watch, but please read up on it and give it a chance–our goal is not to make you like it, but be able to talk about it.

• Write – Discussion Post 8: Globalization

After watching the clips on Shirin Neshat and Guillermo Gomez Pena discuss at least 2 ways they each represent concepts of hybridity, diversification, and transnational/diasporic cultures. What are some of the visuals that each artist uses to highlight these concepts? Make sure you are writing at least 2 paragraphs . (20 points)