Monday Night in New York & Weimar 07.28.2003 -- Languages and Power –- Selected Readings & Discussion led by Deidre Hoguet and Peter Walsh -– in collaboration with Gallery P74, Lubljana, Slovenia

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1. About this Monday

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1. About this Monday, 07.28.03

When: 7pm
Where: 16 Beaver Street, 5th Floor
Who: Open to all

The Bush Administration’s “Coalition of the Willing” for the invasion of
Iraq was in many ways a “Coalition of the English-Speaking.” Are we
witnessing the re-emergence of a kind of Anglophone pan-nationalism? Were
the American, British and Australian governments - “the willing” - really
defining their joint interests by the following phrase: “Where
English-speaking armies go, English goes, and where English goes,
English-speaking business people go”? With the current climate in mind, we
want to discuss two chapters relating to languages and the origins of
nationalisms from Benedict Anderson’s well-known book “Imagined
Communities.”

Envisioned as the first of a series of discussions about the relationships
between various languages to each other and to power, this Monday night’s
reading and discussion will be hosted by artists/16 Beaver participants
Deidre Hoguet and Peter Walsh. The two English-speaking, New York-based,
US-American artists will be traveling to Ljubljana, Slovenia in September
2003 to perform “Tongue:Jezik,” a series of street actions created for
Ljubljana’s Gallery P74. As such, Monday night’s discussion is co-sponsored
by P74. A related discussion, co-sponsored by 16 Beaver, will take place in
Ljubljana in September (also in Vilnius, Lithuania as part of 16
Beaver’s participation in the “24/7” exhibition, also in New York in 16Beaver's participation in 16Beaver Monday Nights).