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Site, Power, and Experience: Three Contemporary Installation Works on Global Mobility
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Xiyin Sabrina Lin
Access: Open access
- This Honors Project investigates the themes of immigration, space, and mobility through the lens of contemporary installation art. It addresses a brief history of global contemporary art, arguing that art of the past two decades has been shaped by preoccupations with and tensions surrounding space. Using the works of Yanagi Yukinori, Alfredo Jaar, and Doris Salcedo as case studies, the essay analyzes how artists use the medium of installation to address institutional history, contemporary geopolitics, as well as individual and collective experience. It interrogates the different aspects of installation art, including temporality, site-specificity, and the use of language, to demonstrate how the medium allows artists to use their own position in the system to critique its inherent limitations.
Interview with Harry Reid by Brien Williams
Date: 2010-07-24
Creator: Harry M Reid
Access: Open access
- Biographical NoteHarry Mason Reid was born on December 2, 1939, in Searchlight, Nevada. He attended Utah State University and George Washington University Law School. He is a Democratic U.S. Senator from Nevada, first elected in 1986, and, at the time of this interview, had served as Senate majority leader since 2007. Previously, he represented Nevadaās 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, was a city attorney, a state legislator, Nevadaās lieutenant governor, and chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. SummaryInterview includes discussion of: majority leader; the Budget Committee vote and Bob Kerrey; 1986 Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) and Mitchellās role; Budget Committee issues; and description of Mitchell as senator.
Interview with Arnold Roach by Mike Hastings
Date: 2008-09-27
Creator: G. Arnold Roach
Access: Open access
- Biographical NoteGeorge āArnoldā Roach was born in Rockland, Maine, on July 28th, 1929, to Nora Nelson Roach and Herbert Ezio Roach. He grew up in Houlton and summered in Rockland. His father, Herbert Roach, was a potato farmer, buyer, and machinery dealer. Arnold attended the University of Maine and in 1951 joined the National Guard. While farming potatoes in Aroostook County, he served on the National Potato Promotion Board as board president and acted as an adviser to Mitchell on Maineās agricultural issues. He was a part of the Clinton-Gore transition team for the Department of Agriculture and worked for the Clinton administration for eight years. At the time of this interview, he was retired and living in southern Aroostook County. SummaryInterview includes discussion of: background in potato politics; working on the Clinton-Gore transition team; involvement with the Department of Agriculture; the National Guard Army Reserve program; Mitchell's campaign for governor 1974; interactions with Mitchell, photographs; topics in potato politics; potato farming and the organic food movement; Mitchell's potato advisors and involvement in the trade; Roach's daughter Elizabeth's position as the director of the U.S Senate Page Program; and general thoughts about Mitchell.
Interview with Martha Pope and David Pozorski by Brien Williams
Date: 2009-11-30
Creator: Martha Pope
David R Pozorski
Access: Open access
- Biographical NoteMartha Pope was born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Connecticut. She attended the University of Connecticut, majoring in sociology with minors in psychology and statistics and in art. She earned a masterās degree in art education at Southern Connecticut University. She taught art for five years in elementary and junior high school, and then she moved to Washington, D.C. and started work on Capitol Hill. She worked for Senator John Culver, and when Culver lost his bid for reelection, Senator Mitchell kept her on as Environment and Public Works Committee staff focusing on fish and wildlife issues. She became his administrative assistant, and when he became majority leader she was chief of staff to the majority leader. In 1990 she was nominated to be sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, and in 1994 she became secretary of the Senate; she retired from that office in January 1995. She joined the State Department to work with Senator Mitchell on Northern Ireland issues, which eventually led to the Good Friday Peace Agreement of 1998. David Roman Pozorski was born on June 26, 1947, to Betty Graham and Roman Leonard Pozorski. He attended Thornridge High School in Dolton, Illinois, and took his bachelorās degree from Harvard in 1969, majoring in history. In 1973, he began his career as a Foreign Service officer; he was deputy director of the German desk when he accepted the assignment to serve as Department of State liaison to Senator George Mitchell, from 1996-1998, during the peace process negotiations in Northern Ireland. Since 2002, he has served as a senior advisor to the U.S. Department of State. SummaryInterview includes discussion of: the position of sergeant-at-arms for the U.S. Senate, and various other Senate positions held by Pope; Mitchellās retirement from the Senate; Popeās transitioning from secretary of the Senate to working with Mitchell on Northern Ireland, Pozorskiās assignment to those negotiations at the State Department, and the administrative organization of Mitchellās Northern Ireland mission; relocating Northern Ireland commission activities to Belfast; President Clintonās involvement in the peace process; separation of the commission from the State Department; the decommissioning process; events and protracted talks leading up to the Good Friday Agreement; Mitchellās negotiating abilities; Canary Wharf and Sinn Feinās participation in the talks; the effect of Tony Blairās election on effecting the Good Friday Agreement; results of the Agreement; living conditions in Northern Ireland for Mitchellās staff; comparisons between Mitchellās negotiating skills in Northern Ireland and as Senate majority leader; animosity between loyalists and unionists; assessment of David Ervine; media coverage; Popeās āGerry Kellyā incident; comparisons between negotiating peace in Northern Ireland and in the Middle East.
Interview with Chris Potholm by Andrea LāHommedieu
Date: 2009-08-12
Creator: Christian 'Chris' P Potholm
Access: Open access
- Biographical NoteChristian P. Potholm holds a chair in government and legal studies at Bowdoin College. He took his graduate work at Tufts University and specializes in Maine politics, warfare, African politics, and international conflict. He previously taught at Vassar, Dartmouth, and the College of the Virgin Islands. He worked on Harry Richardsonās staff and was Bill Cohenās campaign manager in 1972; he continued to work for Cohen while also teaching at Bowdoin. He is the author of fourteen books on politics and founded Command Research, a national polling firm, and the Potholm Group, a consulting group that specializes in ballot measure initiatives. SummaryInterview includes discussion of: George Mitchellās 1974 run for governor of Maine; Potholmās role working for Harry Richardson in the 1974 campaign; Mitchellās being appointed to Ed Muskieās Senate seat in 1980; Mitchellās reelection campaign against Dave Emery in 1982; the changes Mitchell made in his 1982 campaign from his 1974 campaign; Mitchellās partisanship compared to Margaret Chase Smith, Ed Muskie, and Bill Cohen; Ed Muskieās partisanship; Potholmās position on Bill Cohenās staff; Mitchellās and Cohenās relationship; Mitchellās 1988 campaign against Jasper Wyman; Mitchell and PAC money; Mitchellās TV interviewing style; Public Utilities Commission investigation; Potholmās continuing relationship with Bill Cohen; Bill Cohenās current projects; and the placement of Cohenās papers at the University of Maine, Orono.
Interview with Leonard Mulligan by Andrea LāHommedieu
Date: 2009-09-03
Creator: Leonard C Mulligan
Access: Open access
- Biographical NoteLeonard C. Mulligan was born in North Andover, Massachusetts, in 1932. His family moved to Brunswick, Maine, in 1939, where he lived until he was graduated from Bowdoin College; he and George Mitchell were classmates (class of 1954). After graduation he entered the Army. He attended graduate school in Springfield, Massachusetts, and worked at Mass Mutual. He later returned to Maine, where he worked in Bath on housing development. SummaryInterview includes discussion of: Bowdoin in the 1950s; Bowdoin Latin professor Nate Dane; Mulliganās memories of George Mitchell while both were Bowdoin students; Mulligan working on a housing project in Bath with George Mitchell; Gayle Cory; purchasing the Hyde School in Bath, Maine; and Mulliganās daughter Annieās summer internship for Mitchell.