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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an artists' talk and book party with Michelle Dizon and 
 Viet Le in conversation with Laura Fantone and Targol Mesbah. In 
 conjunction with the exhibition WHITE GAZE, these artists and scholars will 
 be talking about the role of photography-and specifically the images of 
 National Geographic-in reinforcing racist hierarchies in the cultural 
 imaginary of the West.\n\nWHITE GAZE, an exhibition of works by Michelle 
 Dizon with the poetry of Viet Le. deconstructs an archive of National 
 Geographic magazines to explore the visual and narrative structure of the 
 publications's White Gaze, the Western-centric bias that informed its 
 editorial decision-making for decades. Drawing from her archive of 
 magazines, Dizon uses poetic subtraction, the erasure of most of the text 
 on the page, to give us back the original language in fragments or threads 
 that together write a decolonial counterpoint to the Western-centric focus 
 of the pictures. \n\nIn April National Geographic will publish an issue 
 that explicitly embarks on a reckoning with its past and its complicity in 
 reinforcing the racism of the white American narrative through a 
 photographic language. Join us to talk about this history and explore the 
 implications of the magazine's decision.\n\nWhite Gaze has also been 
 published as a book by Bay Area-based Sming Sming Books, Chicago-based 
 Candor Arts, and Los Angeles-based at lands edge, and includes text by Viet 
 Le, who uses Dizon's work as a starting point for a poetic exploration of 
 the legacies of war and empire.\n\nFree\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/23/18807662.php
SUMMARY:National Geographic and the White Gaze
LOCATION:DESAI | MATTA GALLERY, CIIS Main Building\n1453 Mission Street\nSan 
 Francisco, CA 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/23/18807662.php
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