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Dan and Cheryl at Home in the Green Room - The Arcades Project and Empire
- presenting Antonia Juhasz and Miryam Sas
Conflating studio, home, and talk show, Dan Spencer and Cheryl Meeker moderate a discussion about the context in which Bay Area Now is set. The significance of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and the global reach and aesthetic influence of commodity and empire will be touchstones for discussion.
Antonia Juhasz is Director of the Chevron Program at Global Exchange, and is a policy-analyst, author, activist, and author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time, Regan Books, 2005.
Miryam Sas, Ph.D Yale University is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies at UC Berkeley, and author of Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism, Stanford University Press, 1999.
Thursday, September 1, 2005 as part of Green Room Now, Stretcher's project for Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' fourth triennial survey of Bay Area artistic activity which was held July 17 - November 6, 2005.
