Jesper Nordahl at Monkey Town

A video project by Swedish artist Jesper Nordahl is presented at the unique dining and video performance space Monkey Town in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on April 30.

This screening program consists of three parts of Jesper Nordahl’s The Kotmale/FTZ Project, based on interviews and research carried out in Sri Lanka in 2004 and 2005. Comprised of a series of videos, a billboard, texts, and images, it is a vivid portrait of the resistance and proposed alternatives to the policies of the World Trade Organization and their impact on Sri Lanka.

National Alliance to Prevent Negative Effects of WTO (21 min 30 sec, 2006) is recorded at a demonstration at Pettha railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in conjunction with the WTO meeting in Hong Kong.

The Women’s Centre (43 min, 2006) is based on a group interview with women – workers and activists – connected to the Women’s Centre at Katunayake Free Trade Zone in Sri Lanka.

Katunayake Free Trade Zone (15 min 30 sec, 2006) is recorded from a car in the Free Trade Zone and features music by a Women's Centre singing group.

Jesper Nordahl is currently an artist-in-residence at Whitney's Independent Studio Program in New York.  The screening is organized by Elna Svenle, a Swedish curator based in New York.

Katunayake Free Trade Zone by Jesper Nordahl
Monkey Town
58 North 3rd Street
(between Kent and Wythe Avenues)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
April 30 at 8 pm

For more information: www.monkeytownhq.com

Image: Katunayake Free Trade Zone, © Jesper Nordahl