Project Puts Spotlight on Women's Issues in North Korea

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This Sunday the Bodies of Pyongyang installation was set up outside of St. Mark's Church. The project is by artist Yoonhye Park and features 20 female performers inside of a 70"x70"x70" clear plexiglass cube, all with the aim of bringing awareness to women's issues in North Korea. "These tightly packed schoolgirls try to move about the enclosed cube box expressing their emotional pain and struggle. Red strings symbolizing their dual inner states of suppression and resistance entangle the girls further confining their freedom to move within their already limited and hermetic space." The installation will be back May 2nd (Washington Square) and May 9th (Tompkins Square).

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Well, I'm now thoroughly aroused.

Back row - 2nd from left - Hipster Grifter?

She's hiding in plain sight!

/casualracism

Is that Kari Ferrell in the 3rd row ?

Far more sexual than the genitalia subway map! :)

It's so disappointing when mimes cheat.

def one of the better installations I have seen recently.

more pix @ http://blog.metromotion.com/

werd.

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I think North Koreans, both female and male, have slightly more important things to worry about than "Womens' Issues." You know, stuff like famine, disease, and a looming, possibly nuclear, conflagration.

i was torn between rice a roni or stove top. hi

I think the point is that when it comes to North Korea, the most important issue is the human rights (whether men or women) conditions and the terrible multiple tragedies facing the North Korean people, more so than your worries about the nuclear conflagration.

Remind me to cancel my May 2nd manicure appointment.

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