Yoko Ono (February 18, 1933-) is a Japanese-American multimedia artist who is a pioneer in performance art. Her band, The Plastic Ono Band, is collaborative sound project that she started in the 1960s with her then husband, John Lennon. Her son, Sean Lennon, now joins her for performances.
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JooYoung Choi (1982-) is a Korean- American multidisciplinary visual artist whose work is often autobiographical and presented through a the kaleidoscopic lens of the fictionalized mythology “The Cosmic Womb”. “Pleasure Vision” is a video installation that was presented via her “Paracosmic Viewing Station & Pleasure Vision Transmission Receiver” and explores being a transracial adoptee.
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And now our feature presentation: Jon Moritsugu’s 1994 satire of American families “Terminal USA”
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“Terminal USA” started out as the winner of a script competition that PBS sponsored. Unfortunately, this was the early 90s and conservatives were attacking Public Media (NPR, PBS, etc) and the National Endowment for the Arts for ~vulgarity~ and due to that many PBS stations refused to air “Terminal USA” and some only aired a severely censored version of the film.
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