Sunday, February 19 11am to 06pm
Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard), Long Island City, NY 11106
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for 120,000 Japanese Americans – many of them American citizens – to be incarcerated in internment camps, The Noguchi Museum will offer free admission all day. The exhibition Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center is on view. It explores Isamu Noguchi’s experiences at the camp in Poston, Arizona, with works from the Museum’s collection and archival documents.
At 3:00 p.m. artist Kimi Maeda will present her solo performance Bend, which tells the true story of two men who were in camp during World War II: Maeda’s father, Robert, an Asian Art historian who suffered from dementia at the end of his life, and the subject of his research, Isamu Noguchi. Weaving together live feed projections of sand drawings with archival footage from the 1940s, Maeda’s performance poses important questions about how the Japanese American internment camps will be remembered.
Free admission! For more information visit: www.noguchi.org