SoCiAl JuStIcE. Youth Empowerment. Learning. Growing. Consicousness raising. dancing. Early 90's hip hop, tan lines, photography, witty comments, and other G-rated activities.
Don't mess with the green water pistol.
AND now: the man, the legend, Stevie Wonder doing "For Once in My Life"
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Good thing he's blind, check out the wackass off-beat dancers around him.
******Artist statement*******
Tiffany Eng is an Oakland, CA born-and-raised artist/youth organizer who believes in the power of consciousness-raising (through humor, education, and art) in order to address social inequities. She received her B.A. in Art and her B.A. in Asian American studies from UCLA in 2001, where she received formal training in drawing, painting, and photography. Her work's grounding resides primarily in her experiences growing up as a Chinese American youth who wanted to address the inherent discrimination of her institutional/ educational upbringing. Her current art focuses on cultural and historic symbols in order to deconstruct the complexities behind every issue, every truth, and every word taken for granted in this society. As always, irony and humor remains a central theme to most of her art.
Young Bay Area Organizers and Activists Project, 2006.
Trust Your Struggle Art Show, May 2006
I'd like to meet:
okay, okay, I'll NOW FRIEND YOU if you're under 18. dangdang.
People who know how to laugh. hard.
I'd love to meet...some grounded peoples and like-minded folks...
Frank (of "12 Galaxies" fame).
The white guy at the Glass Kat.
Girls who think they cute in bee costumes. And Orientalists. j/k.
Music:
I like Tom Jones. no, i'm not kidding.
I like...my dusty old 45's from a flea market on E.11th and Avenue A in the lower east side...
On rotation these days: Kool and the Gang *** Atmosphere *** Antibalas *** FELA KUTI *** Marvin Gaye *** Erykah Badu *** De La Soul *** Ahmad Jamal *** Miles Davis *** Bananarama *** Valerie Simpson *** Sly and the Family Stone *** the Dells *** Stevie Wonder *** Earth Wind and Fire *** Roy Ayres *** Michael Jackson *** Bush Babies *** Poor Righteous Teachers *** Black Moon *** Common LIKE wha... *** Minnie Riperton *** Aretha Franklin *** Raphael Saadiq *** ...and Father MC. shit, why not?
...Dave Chappelles' MUFUGGIN block partaaay...
...Tres Beats/Deedot mixtapes 24/7. he pays me to say shit like this.
and: www.myspace.com/mindcomplex. booya.
Nate Krooks. it ain't photoshop.
Movies:
FAVELA RISING!!! the fcking bomb...
SF International Film Festival 2006
CHECK THAT *ISH OUT when it comes to theaters in June...
Little Miss Sunshine ... Control Room ... Thank you for Smoking ... Me, You, and Everyone we know ... Murderball ... Y Tu Mama Tambien ... Rivers and Tides ... Yellow Brotherhood ... City of God ... Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind ... In the Mood for Love ... Raising Victor Vargas ... Mean Girls ... Royal Tennenbaums ... The Shinning ... Happiness ... Cinema Paradisio ... Donnie Darko ... Spirited Away ... Meet the Feebles ... and David Bowie in Basquiat.
The movies that you make up...
Joy on an orange couch:
Television:
I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't watch T.V. All of this challenges to my ability to engage in small talk with other poeple.
Books:
Art books Haunani Kay Trask writings Catch-22 House on Mango St. Cat's Cradle Como agua para chocolate Bomb the Suburbs Savage Inequalities Assata Persepolis ...the list goes on and on...
Heroes:
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. -- Huey P. Newton
My family. Michael Keaton (hah). Yuri, Chris Rock, the Zapatistas and others who fight for indigenous people's self-determination, Malcolm X, blah blah blah...
And Artists.
"I hate flowers. I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move." - Georgia O'Keeffe
