At a certain point in the proceedings Molly Nesbit started to pass the microphone around the audience, so that people could participate in the discussion. This went on before lunch as well as after. Many people spoke about various things, political and cultural. The woman in this photograph spoke (this time, she spoke again later) about growing up in Nigeria and as a child give a song to sing by the English teachers who ran the school she had gone to. This was an extremely racist song. At the time she was very young and just so pleased to have been chosen to sing. It wasn't till later as she got older that she realized what the lyrics were all about. This was an event at Bard College to inaugurate, present speakers and have a forum for an exchange of ideas in and about a new sculpture/place by Olafur Eliasson. The title of the work is the Parliament of Reality. See the previous eight entries and the following twelve entries.]]>