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Our Media Gallery is being regularly updated. Find a selection of lecture recordings, educational videos, and audio commentaries related to Intersections in this listing below.

 

Videos
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Introductory Video to the Exhibition
How does art intersect with people’s lives? In this video you will hear from artists, religious practitioners, and scholars about their personal relationships with objects and stories they convey. [9:43]

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Slideshow of Gallery Installation
Take a peak into Intersections and see the installation of the galleries captured in photographs.

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Launch High Bandwidth: Santos Carver Fowler Video

Video: Felix Lopez – Santos Carver
Felix Lopez is an artist in New Mexico, who creates Christian religious images called santos. In this video portrait he talks about his path to becoming a santero and what it means for his understanding of the artistic process to create images of religious meaning. [5:44]

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Launch High Bandwidth: Visilia Sii Fowler Video

Video: Sisilia Sii – Weaver
Sisilia Sii is a weaver on the island of Flores in Indonesia, who makes beautiful traditional textile according to the ikat method. She shows step by step the process of creating these intricate designs for the cloth and tells you about the important role her mother played in teaching her weaving. [7:18]

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Launch High Bandwidth: Sepik Fowler Video

Video: Sepik
This video witnesses the building of a ceremonial clan house in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. The patriarch of this clan explains how the century-old designs are being passed down from generation to generation. [5:56]

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Launch High Bandwidth: Camaroon Fowler Video

Video: Cameroon
Usmanou Nsangou, a native from Cameroon who now lives in the U.S., takes us on a trip to Foumban, the capital of the Bamum kingdom in Cameroon. He talks about the masks used in cultural ceremonies and shows us the palace of the king, which is the center of cultural activities for the Bamum peoples. [4:45]

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Launch High Bandwidth: Barong Fowler Video

Video: Barong
Barong processions and dances are a vital part of ceremonial life in Bali. The Barong is considered the village guardian and is being performed once every six months to expel misfortune and evil from the community. [5:14]

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Audio Lectures
Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimlett and Donald Cosentino - On Museums: Everday Culture, Contemporary Experiences and the Politics of Representation [47:11]
Manuel Jordan Lecture - Makishi: Mack Characters of Zambia [71:14]
W.J.T. Mitchell Lecture - What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images [57:58]
Podcast - Jose Rodriguez [7:39]
   
Audio Guide
Power Figures, Central Africa [1:41]
Counselor's Staff by Osei Bonsu [1:31]
Areogun Doors [1:27]
The Wawilak Sisters by Dawidi [1:25]
Cameroon Leadership Arts [1:39]
Eharo Mask, Elema peoples [1:38]
Gelede Mask [0:58]
Hop iKatsina Dolls [0:47]
Hornbill Figure, Iban peoples [1:11]
Don Quixote by Felipe Linares [1:37]
Female Figure, Luba peoples [2:16]
Malagan [1:02]
Ceramic Vessel, Maya culture [1:28]
Mask, Mende peoples [1:45]
Nkisi [1:05]
Northwest Coast Art [1:24]
Ceramics, Ancient Peru [1:59]
Segogela Apartheids Funeral [1:22]
Tree of Death by Veronica Castillo-Hernandez [1:34]
Yoruba Crown [1:22]
Adat Textiles, Southeast Asia [1:24]
Akan Drum [1:07]
Mask, Haida peoples [1:22]