 Art is activism. Art is memorial. I'm gonna just talk briefly about a little little like overview of history of Well, it's not even an overview. It's just it's even briefer than an overview a few examples of prints Responding to art as memorial. So this is Domié the French lithographer The Franco-Prussian War 1871 says on there Grieving figure in front of a field of the dead obviously Kate the Colwitz after World War one the Spartacus revolution one of the leaders of the Spartacus revolution was killed by the what's called the Freikor in Germany and Kate the Colwitz made this memorial for For the dead the living and the dead Poor people gathering in her neighborhood in Berlin to memorialize one of the leaders of the revolution Leopoldo Mendez Extradigital killings in Mexico in the 1950s Ben Sean This piece called Poland It was done in the 50s. I assume it's the Polish uprising, but I don't know exactly Against the Nazis is what I'm assuming but Images of grief If we if we look at these are I'm gonna show some examples of the show that's upstairs and other pieces that are not necessarily in the show the way different artists have responded to To the issues of they're brought up by the Almut Navi Project, this is Jessica Dunn who lives in San Francisco Just basically showing the aftermath of the disaster Bringing bringing the viewer into the present moment of the actual event Doug Minkler an artist in Berkeley Taking a more activist position saying the text in there says that the booksellers Have rebuilt the the street and brought it back to life Patrick Piazza Also, San Francisco artist looks at the history of the region and brings together imagery Some of it. I assume a Syrian It's it's this is a flat piece, but it's it's an image of a book and it looks three-dimensional, but There's also some Some more heroic imagery in there. That's not a Syrian Angel holding the book open This is Ronnie Goodman also San Francisco artist taking this more personal viewpoint of How he personally Found culture through books. This is him as a young man They're at the bottom right here looking at a book and then the tragedy of destruction It's an artist Nick Nick Noughton in Kansas City Who takes a more like a View of the destruction and then hope proceeding out of that destruction the dove in the form of a book and Josh McPhee an artist in Brooklyn, New York similar idea Different execution and then this is Fumi Ishida from Japan a more abstract approach to the to the concept of transformation of hope after destruction, so I Guess we're gonna get everybody up here and have a little bit of a talk if we can do that I Just wanted to give that overview and I don't want you panelists come up here, and we'll sit on the stage here