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a proposal for a post-doc rejected for a really promising young scholar of color. I took a deep breath, and I called the persons who made the decision and asked them to please help me understand how they made that decision. After having that conversation and not being pleased with some criteria they discussed, I went to the faculty committee for inclusion and diversity, and next I am going to go to the provost. It is because it is about much more than me and about my sense of “I don’t want to seem like this person.” Forget that. But really, I hope, through my offering these examples, that when you find yourself in situations, you think about this idea of being comfortable saying “no” because that helps you get closer to the “yes” that you are. 1 Carol Becker, Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) 28. 96
Summary and Final Comments Shane Moreman: I have been thinking about what I am going to say this morning, and I realized that I am in a room with a number of people who love art and who make art and who support art. Knowing that, I am assuming it is going to be hard to shock you. When I was in Mexico City about three years ago, I was hanging out with two performance artists there, Poncho Lopez and La Congelada de Uva. Poncho Lopez was doing an art project in which he was saving his ejaculations, and he had created this stand and he had these great little jars. Every time he ejaculated, he saved it, he stored it in one of the little jars and then put it on display and people would come by and they would look at the ejaculations. His whole point with that art project was that we get into such a hurry for the end product, and look at what the end product is. It was awful. It was ugly. And we shouldn’t get in a hurry, was his point. Enjoy the process. When I look back at what we did here, this was a really enjoyable process. It is sad that it’s over, but we don’t have to think about it as being over. This is a continuing process and we are going to continue to evolve outside of this room. Being a little self-congratulatory of all of us, we have really come a long way in being able to have these very edgy conversations without being hateful to one another, with no one exploding and attacking another person. That is really tough to do. So you did a really good job, and you should be really proud of yourselves. I am very proud of you and all of us together as a group. Brenda Allen: I echo most of Shane’s sentiments in terms of thinking that this has probably been more fruitful than we know. I invite you to pause for a moment to think about what I asked you yesterday—what you hoped to get from us being together. Just think about that as we move into this morning’s discussion. As Shane says, it is a way to bridge into when you leave here. I suggest you consider telling the group what you are going to do with the insights and information and, I trust, new relationships that you have gained. Ming Luke: My world is actually very, very quiet. I am probably the only person in an orchestra who is not actively making sound. What that does for me is it makes me hyper-aware of the musicians’ nonverbal communication because not only are they performing through an instrument, they are also performing through their body language. And the level of their overall performance relates to how I make my living. So it has been very interesting for me to observe the body language of all of you while listening to you. I hear what you are saying, but what is unsaid is even more powerful. As we have considered the question “What is a leader?” the question for people like me is a little intimidating. We have talked about a leader having strength—well, often, we don’t feel like we have strength or wisdom. And we may have respect that we don’t feel like we have earned. And we may not have the experience we need to fully lead. What is the essence of the term to lead when you are not sure where you are leading? In my world, Leonard Bernstein is a major, major voice that continues to affect most of us. The things he talked about were being passionate, being dedicated, being strong in your convictions, and being honest. As we have talked, I see those qualities in the people here. I also hear people say they don’t feel as though they can take on the mantle of leadership, and yet their bodies are saying that they are already actively doing so. So, for many, leadership is not a choice, and body language may position a person as a leader before they feel comfortable proclaiming themselves a leader. Margo Aragon: When you received the invitation to join us here, it really was an invitation to play, and play is an important component of a healthy society. Americans don’t view play in the way that, say, Sunya Ganbold was talking about regarding the role of play in her com- 97
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Introduction By Len Edgerly The New
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Symposium Participants The informat
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