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This past Tuesday (5/12/2010) Anida arrived at the gallery to find the piece vandalized.  you can see pictures of it here.

Amina 1700 Percent Project

  

Anida talks with Luis about the incident.

Anida Yeou Ali Defaced Art

  

  • Vocalo EXTRA:
We spoke with Anida Yoeu Ali last week about her "1700% Project", an installation at the Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which addresses the 1700% increase of hate crimes against Arabs and Muslims after September 11th 2001.

Below is Luis' initial conversation with Anida about the project just hours before it was to open.

Anida Yeou Ali 1700% Project

  

Links:

http://1700percentproject.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/documentation-of-1700-project-iterations/

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/art.muslims.hate.2.1690880.html

Jeremiah, a bartender at Blue Frog Bar & Grill on 22 E. Hubbard tells the story of how he witnessed a purse snatching and sprung into action.

Jeramiah on Chasing Down Purse Snatcher

  

  • If by Rudyard Kipling
  • If you can keep your head when all about you
  • Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
  • If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
  • But make allowance for their doubting too;
  • If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
  • Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
  • Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
  • If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
  • If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
  • If you can meet with triumph and disaster
  • And treat those two imposters just the same;
  • If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
  • Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
  • Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
  • And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
  • If you can make one heap of all your winnings
  • And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
  • And lose, and start again at your beginnings
  • And never breath a word about your loss;
  • If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
  • To serve your turn long after they are gone,
  • And so hold on when there is nothing in you
  • Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
  • If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
  • Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; 
  • If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
  • If all men count with you, but none too much;
  • If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  • With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
  • Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
  • And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!