Amnesia performance excerpt performed at Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, January 10–11, 2002, Joel Sanderson; Roger Shimomura

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Joel Sanderson; Roger Shimomura, Amnesia performance excerpt performed at Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, January 10–11, 2002
Joel Sanderson; Roger Shimomura, Amnesia performance excerpt performed at Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, January 10–11, 2002
Roger Shimomura , Joel Sanderson
Amnesia performance excerpt performed at Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, January 10–11, 2002
2002
Roger Shimomura, artist
born 1939
Joel Sanderson, artist
born 1957
Amnesia performance excerpt performed at Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, January 10–11, 2002, 2002
Where object was made: United States
Credit line: Courtesy of the artist
Accession number: EL2019.144
Not on display
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Staging Shimomura
Amnesia was Shimomura’s final performance work, and, as the title suggests, confronts the issue of current generations of Asians and Asian Americans forgetting their racial and discriminatory history in the United State that began with immigration in the 1850s.
Staging Shimomura
Amnesia was Shimomura’s final performance work, and, as the title suggests, confronts the issue of current generations of Asians and Asian Americans forgetting their racial and discriminatory history in the United State that began with immigration in the 1850s.

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Staging Shimomura
Kris Ercums, curator
2020

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