Summary
Puerto Rican artist and curator who led the Alternative Museum delegation to Palestine during the first intifada and curated its exhibition Occupation and Resistance: American Impressions of the First Intifada, analyzed in Chapter 1 of Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.68-73).
Details
- The delegation sought to cultivate solidarity between groups subject to racialized discrimination, bringing Latino and African American delegates alongside first-generation Americans who had come to the United States to escape oppressive regimes and dictatorship (PDF p.68).
- Rodriguez hoped delegates would see commonalities and ruptures between their own experiences and Palestinians’ in Gaza and the West Bank, and create art intervening in widely circulated images of Palestinians (PDF p.68-69).
- Artists in the exhibition he curated included Terry Berkowitz, Bill Biggart, Magda Dajani, David Donahue, Ming Fay, Gadi Gofbarg, Tom Hayes, Marylu Meibers, Yong Soon Min, John Morita, Tariq Abu Sammie, Jos Sances, Coreen Simpson and Deborah Willis, and a collective piece by the Break the Silence Mural Project (PDF p.69).
Related pages
Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, Deborah Willis, Break the Silence Mural Project, Report-Back