Nation

1992
Country: USA
Duration: 2 mins
Available Format/s: DVD / Digibeta tape / SD Digital file

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This spot was made for the American Center in Paris and is a celebration and affirmation of the diversity of peoples which make up the United States and is also a plea for better health care.
Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and The American Center in Paris as part of their international Trans Voices project, Nation flashes contradictory formulations of language, politics, and medicine across a sharp and close screen. Blurring geography with the body’s landscape, Nation reminds us that our bodies, like land, have been shaped by history into zones to be charted, conquered, divided, or made whole. “Think globally act locally,” in one dense minute.

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