[Peace] VIDEO SCREENING: "Jeep/Cherokee/Indian" & "Pontiac(s)" // Tuesday, July 25, 2006 (7-9pm) at IPRH

[Nicholas Brown]

Press Release:

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MFA Exhibition / Nicholas Brown
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Tuesday / July 25, 2006 / 7-9pm

Humanities Lecture Hall
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
805 West Pennsylvania Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 244-3344

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On Tuesday, July 25th MFA Candidate Nicholas Brown will screen two new
videos that deal with the contested history and memory of Indian
Removal, Westward Expansion, and Manifest Destiny, and the persistence
of rhetoric, symbols, and attitudes associated with these events.
Focusing on the Trail of Tears in southern Illinois and the death of
Chief Pontiac near East St. Louis, both videos present a racialized
landscape that confounds efforts to simply "remember" and/or "forget."
"Jeep/Cherokee/Indian" and "Pontiac(s)" reveal how these histories and
identities are subtly encountered and [re]produced in the everyday.
The videos will be screened at 7pm on Tuesday, July 25th in the
Humanities Lecture Hall at the Illinois Program for Research in the
Humanities (805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana).

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"Jeep / Cherokee / Indian" (17 minutes)

An experimental documentary premised on a search for (Jeep) Cherokees
along the Trail of Tears in Illinois on the occasion of the 167th
anniversary of the forced relocation.

http://www.walkinginplace.org/cherokee/index.htm

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"Pontiac(s)" (4.5 minutes)

Pontiacs spotted in Cahokia, Illinois on April 20, 2006 - exactly 237
years after Chief Pontiac was stabbed to death by a Peoria Indian in
the streets of Cahokia.

http://www.walkinginplace.org/pontiac/index.htm

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These videos are supplemented by a series of web-based projects.

Online Preview: http://www.walkinginplace.org/indian/

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"Marching to the Arch on the Trail of Death"

http://www.walkinginplace.org/march/index.htm

Searching for traces of the past and possibilities for the future in
the present landscape of east central Illinois - all the while
revealing the persistence and projection of rhetoric, symbols, and
attitudes associated with Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny.

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"North Carolina 75 / Illinois 70"
http://www.walkinginplace.org/ncaa/northcarolina.htm

Listening to the championship game at Leal Park in Urbana.

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"Illinois 72 / Louisville 57"
http://www.walkinginplace.org/ncaa/louisville.htm

Listening to the Final Four at Adkin's Point.

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