Sad Clown, 8 x10" Oil on canvas, Copyright Kyi May Kaung.
"Mirthful paint cannot erase, despair that's written on my face." Bijan C. Bayne.
“War, Memory and Representation in Art:
Burma, Korea, Laos, & Vietnam”
A panel discussion organized by the Institute for Policy Studies, www.ips-dc.org
Date: January 28, 2009
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: DC Peace Mural Exhibition
3336 M Street, NW (Georgetown)
Washington, DC 20007
Type: Forum / Panel discussion (indoors)
Cost: Free
Website: http://www.ips-dc.org/events/1008
Contact: Kathryn Zickuhr, kathryn.zickuhr@gmail.com
Please join Kyi May Kaung, Annabel Park, Channapha Khamvongsa, and Anna
Huong on January 28 inside the Washington DC Peace Mural Exhibition for a
powerful discussion of the representation of conflict and suffering in art, “War,
Memory and Representation in Art: Burma, Korea, Laos, & Vietnam,” led by FPIF
Co-Director Emira Woods.
e panelists, who are artists and social activists from Korea, Laos, Burma, and
Vietnam, will explore the unique ability of art to bring collective experiences of
suffering into the public discourse. eir own experiences and work have touched
deeply on the issues of how, through art, traumatic individual memories can be woven
into a larger context of community grief, reconciliation, and healing.
