Word: awkwardly
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Journalists have been quick to criticize the works, suspecting that somehow the artists are playing a big joke on us all. Ironically, the main support for environmental art has come from within the art world itself. Artists creating works which were deliberately too big, too awkward, or too temporary to be bought, sold and exhibited on the gallery/museum scene were offered museum shows and commissions throughout the world. By some feat of ingenuity, the masterminds of the art business managed to make the unmarketable marketable...
...monkey cage. "Yeah!" says Philly. They move on to the tigers. "How do you like that?" Philly is excited and happy. "Yeah!" he answers. Back home he chatters happily with his mother about the outing, as a four-year-old child might do. Perception of Philly as a large, awkward child is a way for the viewer to think of him without horror. But he is not a child, and Wohl's film leads onlookers past this point-to an understanding of Philly as a grown man, cruelly limited, but with high courage and an enormous compensating ability...
...fear of being considered "deviant" by others, and the anxiety provoked by wondering about oneself; the fear of "what they do in bed"; that pervasive discomfort on the part of most "straight" people that comes from the knowledge that, despite a desire to be open-minded, they still feel awkward around gay people...
...seem vain but essentially harmless. Yet it has a seamier side. One outgrowth of the nation's aversion to aging has been a tendency to look askance at, and often down on, people in the later years of life. The attitude has lately been tagged with the awkward label ageism...
Majority group members at Harvard often complain that they feel awkward among groups of "others." How do they think these "others" feel around them? Yes, racial tension does make people feel uncomfortable. And as long as majority group members continue to allow the burden of this discomfort to fall upon the oppressed, they are perpetuating an attidinal inequity which betrays their own unconscious racism...