Event Blog 2: Collective Bread Diaries: A Taste of Protest
During Week 1, I had the opportunity to attend Haytham Nawar’s exhibit, Collective Bread Diaries: A Taste of Protest. In his exhibit, Nawar asked people around the world to sketch a picture of the bread in their home country using Amazon Mechanical Turk, and compiled the sketches he got into a collection. He told us about how in Egypt, holding up a loaf of bread was a sign of protest, and he noticed that the kind of bread eaten in different regions has some political significance. For example, many people from countries that had been colonized by France drew a baguette, despite the fact that this may not have been the bread that originated from their area. This example demonstrates how politics and world events influence the spread of culture and thus, the spread of the types of bread eaten in different regions. Nawar’s art unites art and science, existing not in either the cultures of science or humanities, as described by C.P Snow’s two cultures, but instead exists in the third cult...
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