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...ethnic groups at Harvard, panelist Derrick N. Ashong '97 asked how many people in the audience were familiar with two cultures in addition to their own. He was prompting us to explore the events of campus ethnic organizations. But which culture could I say was my own? The Swiss culture of my relatives, the American culture I grew up in or my grandfather's Puerto Rican heritage? I am not familiar with each of these cultures although together they comprise my ethnicity. Do I have the responsibility to learn about all three of these cultures...
...race is Caucasian, but my ethnic heritage is a mix of Puerto Rican, Swiss, German and English. Should I join a club to learn about the ones with which I am least familiar? Should I learn about cultures that are not part of my ethnicity by attending, for example, Chinese Students Association meetings? Am I culturally deficient...
...group of cornichons inspect piles of thinly-sliced processed meat doubling as Persian carpets with fat-swirl designs and olive-chunk embroidery. Hardly just playing with their food, in these photographs Fischli and Weiss provide a wry social critique, probing the banality and vulgarity of a middle-class Swiss breakfast--an insult to American anti-cholesterol culture. Yet, at the same time their loving construction and charming scenarios challenge a one-dimensional, cynical reading as well as our ideas about social and institutional critique...
...their retrospective, proves that Fischli and Weiss are serious artists who don't take themselves too seriously--a refreshing attitude for anyone familiar with the 80s art scene. Organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, this immensely entertaining exhibition includes video, sculpture, and photography, beginning with the Swiss artists' earliest collaborative photographs, the 1979 "Sausage Series...
Nowhere is this more apparent than in their untitled video project from the 1995 Venice Biennale, an extraordinary and epic look at the ordinary and ephemeral. The piece includes nearly 10 monitors showing over 80 hours of footage from Swiss life. Workers fix sewage lines or stir huge vats of cheese; cats are carefully judged at a pet show; a dentist drills a cavity; and a pulsing crowd moves to awful music and out-of-synch lights at a disco...