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Intolerable Conditions

by ArtSlant Team
Shoja Azari, Jimmie Durham, Regina José Galindo, Reloading Images, Tadeusz Kantor, Klara Lidén, Michael Rakowitz, Seher Shah at Haus der Kulturen der Welt March 13th, 2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Posted 3/9/10

Eight artistic statements protesting intolerable conditions, ranging from the "dead" classroom by the extraordinary Polish artist Tadeusz Kantor to Jimmie Durham's unmasking of America’s founding myth in "Building a Nation", to Regina José Galindo’s opening performance: her own gold teeth become the metaphor not only for the exploitation of Latin America, but also call forth associations of the brutality of the "Third Reich". The works take on today’s global reality – not by reflecting... [more]