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Thread ID: 14641 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2004-08-07
2004-08-07 22:46 | User Profile
THE RESULTS OF ABOLITION: negro to 'Lynch' Confederate Flag at Gettysburg College AScribe - USA 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- An artist will "lynch" the Confederate battle flag on a specially built 13-foot-high outdoor gallows at Gettysburg College Sept. 3. ... http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20040806.105159&time=11%2011%20PDT&year=2004&public=1
Fri Aug 6 11:11:16 2004 Pacific Time
ADVISORY for 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3 - Gettysburg, Pa.
Artist to 'Lynch' Confederate Flag at Gettysburg College
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Aug. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- An artist will "lynch" the Confederate battle flag on a specially built 13-foot-high outdoor gallows at Gettysburg College Sept. 3.
The lynching - set for 7 p.m. near Schmucker Hall off North Washington Street - will occur on the opening night of an exhibition called "Recoloration Proclamation: The Gettysburg Redress" by artist John Sims.
This lynching, entitled "The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag," will also be the subject of an exhibition closing ceremony on Sept. 26.
The exhibition in the college's Schmucker Art Gallery will also include:
- Confederate flags that Sims has rendered in alternate colors, such as the black, red and green of the African liberation movement. Two "drag flags" will be in lavender and pink with sparkles and fur.
- Sims' "ReVote" installation, which includes his re-colored "Floridian Rebel Flag" surrounded by three of the actual voting booths used in Florida's controversial 2000 presidential election.
- The artist's revised version of President Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address."
- The artist's "Dixie Remix Project," an interactive experience centering on the famous song that begins, "Way down south in the land of cotton."
- A lecture on Sims, "Razing the Flag: Nationalism and Dissent in Contemporary Art," by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, assistant professor of art history and Afro-American studies at Harvard University at Schmucker Hall, at 5:15 p.m., Sept. 16.
"The 'Recoloration Proclamation' project is about visual terrorism, respect and collective self-esteem issues," Sims said.
"By co-opting the image of the Confederate flag and changing the well-known color scheme to one antithetical to the flag's historical and cultural function, Sims is able to interrogate and re-direct the symbol's power, perhaps altering the viewer's sense of place and belonging," said Dr. Molly S. Hutton, who directs Gettysburg College's Schmucker Art Gallery.
In addition to his work as an artist, Sims is coordinator of mathematics at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla. A native of Detroit, he is completing a Ph.D. in mathematics at Wesleyan University, and holds a B.S. in mathematics from Antioch College in Ohio. He is co-curator of "MathArt/ArtMath," a nationally touring exhibition of contemporary mathematical art.
Images and more information about Sims are available at [url]www.johnsimsprojects.com[/url].
Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences. With a student body of approximately 2,500, it is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The college was founded in 1832.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Kendra Branchick, Gettysburg College media relations, 717-337-6801; [email]kbranchi@gettysburg.edu[/email]; [url]www.gettysburg.edu/administration/public_relations/newsroom.html[/url]
John Sims, 941-330-0096; [email]jsims@ringling.edu[/email]; [url]www.johnsimsprojects.com[/url]
NOTE TO EDITORS: To attend a press preview of the exhibit, call the Office of Communications and Public Relations at 717-337-6801.
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2004-08-24 23:18 | User Profile
I love how Dr. Molly-Moll goes out of her way to speak of Sims' artwork as anything but anti-Confederacy. Also, I couldn't help but get a chuckle from one of Sims' places of education: [B]Ringling[/B] School of Art and Design. I think they meant "Ringling Brothers' Barnum and Bailey Circus" (care to guess which animal he is in the cage?)
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2004-09-01 16:45 | User Profile
A little bit of good news -- After the public outcry, Gettysburg College decided that the lynching had to take place indoors for 'security reasons.' When the 'artist' heard that he would have to do it indoors, he threw a fit, packed up, and left. So, I don't think the lynching is going to happen at all.