Summer Salon Series 2012

The Indian born, New York City based artist Rina Banerjee has a love of materials, heritage textiles, fashion, colonial objects and furnishings, and historical architecture, due to their ability to disguise, animate, and locate their inherent meanings in her art work. She has said that her work explores "specific colonial moments that reinvent place and identity as complex diasporic experiences." Her preoccupation with the role of culture, mythology, fairy tales, anthropology, and ethnography fold into trajectories of race, exotic capital, and the forces of our migration-mobility, tourism, and global commerce. The tensions and desires created out of our individual, increased travel, and our access to information technologies, have perforated traditional boundaries, creating a malleability that reflects a globalized sense of space and a diminished experience of dominant culture paradigm. www.TheSanDiegoMuseumofArt.org Video produced by The Balboa Park Online Collaborative

Nationally recognized performer Andrew Dinwiddie re-enacts a sermon from Preacher Jimmy Swaggart. The performance, based on a now out-of-print-vinyl recording of Swaggart's 1971 speech in Arkansas, ironically attacks popular culture, especially show business, even though Swaggart is an iconic performer himself and is the cousin of rocker Jerry Lee Lewis. While Dinwiddie breathes new life into Swaggart's words, they inevitably mean something different to us then they would have originally 40 years ago. www.TheSanDiegoMuseumofArt.org Video produced by The Balboa Park Online Collaborative

Belgium-based Pierre Bismuth is best known in the popular culture world for writing hit films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and in the art world for his stunning exhibitions at such important venues as the 11th Lyon Biennial, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the New Museum and the Drawing Center in New York City. He discusses his work Flashback, installed in front of the Museum for this night of the Summer Salon Series, including how it differs from the version he presented in Los Angeles last year. www.TheSanDiegoMuseumofArt.org Video produced by The Balboa Park Online Collaborative