REDUCTION SEBASTIAN CLARK LAYLA HEIDARI PHILIP HELLER TIFFANY ZABLUDOWICZ
1 REDUCTION: THE HISTORIC MOMENT AS ICON LAYLA HEIDARI
2 REDUCTION OF CULTURE IN HOLLYWOOD PHILLIP HELLER “When you cross the mountains of the moon into our country, you will be stepping back two thousand years.”
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3 THE REDUCTION OF THE ARTIST -
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others preferred head-to-toe Chador.
“What seems like creation is the act of he [the artist] has re-- John Berger
and feel that photography works best with my topdrama.� -- Shirin Neshat
explore until I returned to of the most shocking had. At that time, the intellectual and the emotional came together for me. The difference between what I had remembered from the Iranian culture and what I was witnessing was enormous.� -- Shirin Neshat
-- Shirin Neshat
“[The United States] is in a modern, free, society where we sense a great personal isolation and loneliness.
feels at peace in either space.� -- Shirin Neshat
And then, all the closed gates will be shattered by
And, I know: There will be a girl, still standing in front of the gates, those soaked gatesI will greet her again as well. I will greet her again as well.
by Forough Farrokhzad – written on the woman
4 REDUCTION IN THE NEOLIBERAL EPOCH SEBASTIAN CLARK