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Monday, April 30
Admission: Free, $10 minimum
Showtime: 8pm
reservations
are recommended
This screening program consists of three parts of Jesper Nordahl’s
The Kotmale/FTZ project, based on interviews and research carried
out in Sri Lanka in 2004 and 2005. It comprises a series of videos,
a billboard, texts, and images that investigate the political
context and impact of Free Trade Zones and the much criticized
Kotmale hydropower project, part of a Swedish aid program initiated
in the late seventies in Sri Lanka. The Kotmale/FTZ is also a
portrait of the resistance and proposed alternatives to the policies
the World Trade Organization suggests for the country today.
National alliance to prevent
negative effects of WTO
21 min 30 sec, 2006
National alliance to prevent negative effects of WTO is recorded
at a demonstration at Pettha railwaystation in Colombo, Sri Lanka,
held in December, 2005, in conjunction with the WTO meeting in
Hong Kong. It is a protest against the political changes WTO wants
to impose on Sri Lanka and other countries.
The Women's Centre
43 min, 2006
The Women’s Centre is based on a group interview with women—workers
and activists—connected to the Women’s Centre at Katunayake
Free Trade Zone in Sri Lanka. The main issues discussed are the
free trade zones, gender politics, and women rights in the zone
and in society at large.
Katunayake Free Trade Zone
15 min 30 sec, 2006
Katunayake Free Trade Zone consists of video footage recorded
from a car within the Katunayake FTZ. The footage is accompanied
by music performed and composed by the Women's Centre singing
group.
Jesper Nordahl
(b. 1969) is a Swedish artist currently based in New York,
attending the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has a MFA
from the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, and
has studied Sociology at Stockholm University. Nordahl has exhibited
at Shedhalle, Zürich; Swiss Institute, New York; Kunstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin; and Gävle konstcentrum, Mångkulturellt
centrum Fittja, Index, Moderna Museet, Liljevalchs konsthall,
and Bildmuseet Umeå, all in Sweden.
The screening is organized by Elna Svenle, a Swedish curator based
in New York. With support from IASPIS.
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