Cultural InvAsian of Art

On Thursday, October 30, 2008, our group split up into pairs and "invaded" different buildings on campus at approximately 7 in the morning as part of our Cultural InvASIAN midterm, where we were supposed to use performance art to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the strike of 1968 at SFSU. Katrina and I were invading the first and second floors of the Humanities building. We wrote lines of poetry and quotes from Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) strikers on boards in classrooms and documented each with a photograph. Each of the pairs were supposed to get a bit of video to contribute to the 5 minutes documentation of our invasion, but a few people had trouble uploading their videos. It didn't matter though, because we had a lot of pictures and other members have videos. We also wrote the quotes in blackboards in the girl's bathrooms and posted fliers on the bulletin boards in the halls whenever we could find an unused tack.





We slowly peeked in each classroom and as it got closer to 8:10, when class starts, we skipped the ones that had their lights on because we didn't want to be seen during our "invasion." We did get the majority of rooms, and it was a lot of fun sneaking around. We were afraid someone might come in while we were writing, so we wrote everything really fast and messy, but no one came in. We left a flier at the bottom of the board where we wrote the quotes so anyone who was interested could read the flier and know what it was about. I felt as though I was doing my part in contributing to the struggle of Ethnic Studies and maybe influencing others to do the same. Hopefully, it got some teachers to remember the strike of '68 and maybe explain about it to their class.