"National Anthem is a stirring and now even more timely body of work that offers a powerful meditation on protest, patriotism, solidarity and hope, especially in the current era when reckless ICE thugs are carrying military-grade weapons, rounding up as many brown people as they can and intentionally inciting violence wherever people disagree with the president's policies."
"If you stage a protest on such a large platform in front of millions of people, it can only be because you care about the place or the country that you are supposed to represent in this moment."
"The day before the Super Bowl, the German-Japanese artist Kota Ezawa will screen a two-minute video animation of NFL players taking a knee, all afternoon at the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara."
Kota Ezawa will screen a two-minute animation titled National Anthem (2018) of NFL players taking a knee at the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara the day before the Super Bowl. A recorded string quartet version of the anthem provides the soundtrack. The museum will run the video on loop from noon until 4pm on Saturday, with Ezawa speaking at 12:30pm followed by a reception. National Anthem is part of a series focused on peaceful NFL player protests against racial injustice and police brutality, originating with Colin Kaepernick in 2016 and continuing until similar demonstrations were banned in 2018. The series premiered at the 2019 Whitney Biennial and draws from Ezawa’s practice of appropriating well-known images and translating them into reductive animated videos, light boxes, and works on paper.
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