Photo by: Vinh Dao
Anida Yoeu Ali, Roll Call, The Buddhist Bug Series, 2014. Archival Inkjet Print. Courtesy of: the artist. © Studio Revolt.
Photo by: Vinh Dao
Anida Yoeu Ali, Secret Lagoon, The Buddhist Bug Series, 2014. Courtesy of: the artist. © Studio Revolt.
Photo by: Masahiro Sugano
Anida Yoeu Ali, Campus Dining The Buddhist Bug Series, 2012. Courtesy of: the artist. © Studio Revolt.
Vincent Price Art Museum
Fund: $50,000
The Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) serves as an educational and cultural resource for East Los Angeles College and its surrounding communities. VPAM will present The Buddhist Bug, a project by Cambodian American artist Anida Yoeu Ali that springs from her interest in hybridity, otherness, transcendence, spiritual turmoil, and humor. The Bug is a huge saffron-colored creature that Ali enacts in performance, its body extending nearly 328 feet in length. Its orange color evokes the robes of Buddhist monks and its cloth-framed face represents the hijab worn by some Muslim women, reflecting the Cambodian Muslim minority to which Ali belongs. The project features one live performance of The Buddhist Bug and an exhibition of approximately 29 works in VPAM's Molina Gallery, with the performance beginning within the exhibition galleries before extending into the campus.
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