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Gallery Talk with Artist Nina Yankowitz

Nina Yankowitz in discussion with Curator Christina Strassfield. They will discuss the advent of the internet and social and cultural norms of the day that ensure searching scriptures by the architects of faith will never settle into a permanent groove while discovering new questions and new responses; ad infinitum and with no amen. Nina Yankowitz’s CRISS~CROSSING THE DIVINE is an interactive installation that uses technology to allow people to explore the relative perspectives of sacred texts. Original scriptures from the Old Testament, New Testament, The Quran, Buddhist and Hindu texts are respectively color-coded so participants can save and retrieve a copy of their searched perspectives after exiting to learn from which religions their color-coded texts originated. The installation is based on the belief that most conflicts are fueled by religious intolerance. Politicians often use religion as a theme to divide people and camouflage actual party platform issues, albeit philosophies reflected in the original scriptures are, at their core, not very different from each other.

Talk FREE with Museum Admission.

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