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DESCRIPTION:"Art and Power"\nSpeakers: Amy Balkin, Snehal Shingavi\n\nSeries:\nThe New 
 New Masses\nDiscussions About Art and Politics\n\nLocation\nSan Francisco 
 Art Institute Café\n800 Chestnut Street\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94133\n\nOctober 6 at 7:00pm\nfree and open to the public\n\nEverything is 
 for sale. Even free art gets evaluated in the context of a world of price 
 tags. But we need to make art, right? To kick off this series we are going 
 to talk about the function art plays in society and how power has 
 influenced this role historically and continues to affect artists today. 
 Ultimately we’ll ask the questions, “What is going on in the world?” 
 and “can artists be a meaningful part of resistance?”\n\nSan 
 Francisco-based artist Amy Balkin’s art practice combines 
 crossdisciplinary research and social critique, focusing on how humans 
 create, interact, and impact the social and material landscapes they 
 inhabit. Her most recent project is Invisible-5, a collaborative critical 
 audio tour of the I-5 corridor between the bay Area and los Angeles. Other 
 projects include This Is the Public Domain (thisisthepublicdomain.org), an 
 attempt to create a permanent international commons from 2.5 acres of land 
 located near Tehachapi, CA, via legal transfer to the global public, and 
 Public Smog (publicsmog.org), which examines the commodification of the 
 atmosphere through the economic mechanism of carbon trading. She received 
 her MFA from Stanford University in 2003.\n\nSnehal Shingavi is a PhD 
 candidate in English Literature at UC Berkeley. His dissertation “The 
 Mahatma, the Marxists, and the Modernists” explores Indian writing in 
 English from the 1930s and 1940s. He is the author of several articles on 
 Palestinian history, literature, and politics, and has recently published a 
 translation of Munshi Premchand’s novel, Sevasadan (1917). Shingavi is a 
 regularly invited speaker on topics that address the intersection of 
 artistic and political movements, and is currently a docent at the Berkeley 
 Art Museum for the exhibition Edge of Desire: Contemporary Art from South 
 Asia.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/28/18315358.php
SUMMARY:Amy Balkin & Snehal Shingavi Discuss "Art and Power"
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\n800 Chestnut 
 Street\n415.771.7020\nwww.sfai.edu
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/28/18315358.php
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