[Haiti-London-Konbit] Cabinet Screening

[Haiti-London-Konbit]

Hello Everyone,

Space is limited for the Cabinet screening on Tuesday. Can you please  
rsvp the Cabinet if you're definitely coming.

Thanks,

John



> C A B I N E T
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> John Cussans. Invisible Mirrors.
> Film screening & talk. Tuesday 30th March 7-9 pm
> RSVP events at cabinetgallery.co.uk
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> Haitian History Lessons
> In 1791 a gathering of revolutionary slaves took place at Bois  
> Caïman (Alligator Wood) in the mountainous northern plain of Haiti.   
> At the meeting presided over by the Vodou priest Dutty Bookman a  
> ceremony was enacted in which a black pig was sacrificed and a blood  
> oath sworn to the God of the African slaves and to the spirit of  
> Liberty. This event marked the symbolic inception of the Haitian  
> revolution which culminated in the first society in the colonial  
> world to fully abolish slavery and the declaration of the first  
> independent Black Republic in 1804. The legend of Bois Caïman is the  
> source of recent accusations made by Christian Fundamentalists that  
> the earthquake in Haiti was punishment for an historical pact with  
> Satan.
> In the late 1970’s the indigenous Haitian pig was diagnosed with  
> African swine fever. In order to protect the regional pork industry  
> the Duvalier government, under pressure from the US Food and Drugs  
> Administration, eradicated the native pig population. At great  
> expense the peasants were then forced to buy American pigs that were  
> vulnerable to disease, required expensive medication (only available  
> via the US) and cost more to feed than the average Haitian human.  
> This further decimated the already ruined Haitian rural economy and  
> forced yet more peasants into the already over-crowded slums of Port- 
> au-Prince in search of work in the sweatshops.
> In 2004, following the second US-backed ousting of the popular  
> President Jean Francois Aristide, the UN established MINUSTAH (the  
> United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) with responsibility  
> for ‘restoring public order’ to the nation. In “Invisible Mirrors”  
> Reginald Jean Francois recounts the story of how UN forces, shortly  
> after arriving, enacted a ceremonial ritual on a replica of the  
> Florentine Boar in downtown Port-au-Prince, in an attempt to  
> magically bind the energy of the national symbol of independence,  
> revolution and resistance.
> John Cussans 2010
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> Cabinet, London
> 49-59 Old Street
> London EC1V 9HX
> art at cabinetgalleryltd.demon.co.uk
> www.cabinet.uk.com

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