tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171157932009-04-21T21:58:14.405-07:00Snapshots of Cultural ResistanceSansei Geishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03101110373481476043geisha_crossing@hotmail.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17115793.post-1147155983350193192006-05-08T23:24:00.000-07:002006-05-09T17:26:08.506-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archives/2004/12/sensual_asian_w.html" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3244/1642/200/hypenblog.jpg" target="_blank" alt="" border="0" /></a>Throughout the summer of 2004, San Francisco's visual landscape was blanketed with advertisements for the Asian Art Museum's “Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile” exhibit, images which annoyed me to no end. So I pirated their poster image, turning it into my own in response. On the closing weekend of the “Geisha” show, my friend S. and I plastered Japantown with dozens of posters, and then proceeded to plant five dozen flyers in the information booth inside the Asian Art Museum itself. Various sources noted the wide-ranging impact of the small, simple action:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/12/05/LVG4DA3LSD1.DTL" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3244/1642/200/SF-Chron320.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> in Japantown, the museum, academic discourse, and on public consciousness through the media. The San Francisco Chronicle devoted nearly a full page, giving last word to a U.C. art history professor: "To the extent that museums assert authority to speak for culture, they open themselves up for critique, and they should engage that critique."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tsuchitaniart.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Scott Tsuchitani</a>, May 2005<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17115793-114715598335019319?l=geishacrossing.blogspot.com'/></div>Sansei Geishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03101110373481476043geisha_crossing@hotmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17115793.post-1127679529299171172005-09-25T13:14:00.000-07:002007-01-26T20:01:19.850-08:00The Whole Story:<br /><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/12/05/LVG4DA3LSD1.DTL" target="_blank">Annie Nakao, "Memoirs of a Geisha Guerrilla,"<br />San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 5, 2004, p. M2</a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/12/05/LVG4DA3LSD1.DTL" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3244/1642/200/SF-Chron320.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.kearnystreet.org/programs/special/pirated/tsuchitani.html" target="_blank">Bio/Statement for Installation in Kearny Street Workshop's PIRATED exhibition</a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.kearnystreet.org/programs/special/pirated/tsuchitani.html" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3244/1642/200/My-Installation320.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archives/2004/12/sensual_asian_w.html" target="_blank">Compare original ad w/guerrilla art on Hyphen's blog</a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archives/2004/12/sensual_asian_w.html" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3244/1642/200/hypenblog.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17115793-112767952929917117?l=geishacrossing.blogspot.com'/></div>Sansei Geishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03101110373481476043geisha_crossing@hotmail.com0