Not Just Tapes
Opening reception for “Not Just Tapes, an exhibition of 600+ Bollywood VHS tapes. As co-producer Sandy Dahari explains, “South Asian-Americans, like all immigrants, are demanded to assimilate, to make ourselves palatable. Simultaneously, elders, guilt, and nostalgia demand that the culture and values of the homeland take precedence. To be of the diaspora is to be between. Between-ness is fuzzy, and here the lo-res quality of bootleg video recalls a specific moment in time, while also addressing the wobbliness of existing between cultures and generations.”
PPL
150 Empire St, Providence
External Link:
https://www.openforever.org/open-providence-public-library/not-just-tapes