by Robin Kirk | Sep 1, 2007 | Robin Kirk
11mall security 9-01-07 Originally uploaded by FabiolaPal It took four minutes for mall security at Durham’s The Streets at Southpoint mall to shut us down today. We came with more people and signs. One person, offered a leaflet with information about the real...
by Robin Kirk | Aug 26, 2007 | Robin Kirk
Sarah Redpath at Bodies: The Exhibition Originally uploaded by FabiolaPal Today, Sarah Redpath and I distributed information leaflets outside the “Bodies: The Exhibition” entrance at the Southpoint Mall in Durham, North Carolina. Sarah has launched an...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 24, 2007 | Robin Kirk
A provocative headline, clearly. But Jonah Goldberg’s excellent opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times puts it starkly. Pulling American troops from Iraq will almost certainly lead to a genocide. In the words of New York Times reporter John Burns, quoted in the...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 11, 2007 | Robin Kirk
In May, I posted on an exhibit currently in Durham called Bodies: The Exhibition. At the city’s newest mall, the show features “plastinated” bodies posed to show the workings of muscles, ligaments, bones and internal organs. “Plastination” preserves living...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 5, 2007 | Robin Kirk
District Six 2 Originally uploaded by FabiolaPal Speaking of memorials, Cape Town’s District Six museum is one of the best and most powerful museums I have ever visited. Located on the edge of what was once the city’s bustling and integrated downtown, the...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 5, 2007 | Robin Kirk
Amy Biehl Monument Originally uploaded by FabiolaPal Too often in talk about what happens after violence do people pay serious attention to the way people memorialize the lost. Memorials can be powerful (like the now iconic Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC),...
