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...quotations address the post-modern "atrophy of experience," a symptom of the "information age," but the poor quality of the projections dilutes the visual impact of Kosuth's Primary cintext for his text, defying his emphasis on context and art being incorporated into the "real world...
...defining the Context of Art: 1968-1997, The Second Investigation and Public Media" at MIT's Weisner Visual Art Center displays Joseph Kosuth's development as philosopher and social commentator, but, overall, lacks visual intrigue. Housed in a small, dimly lit room, the show consists of three large projections that cover two walls, black lettering on the sole window and approximately 25 striking black-and-white photographs...
...work, largely textual, incorporates quotes from essays by Walter Benjamin and Kosuth himself into a montage of philosophical meanderings that derives most of its forcefulness from Kosuth's chosen venues of display. The exhibit thus records not only Kosuth's work, but the context in which the work was originally displayed. One of the projections and a majority of the photographs show Kosuth's text as first introduced to the public: printed on newspapers, computer screens, banners, buildings and big-city billboards...
Politics is full of our innermost fears, joys and passions not because the personal is political, but because the personal does not exist. Laws are directly tied to loves. Loves and love, because one-ness reduces us to an empty conception of "self" that has no meaning out of context, forcing us into a model of relating to others which ignores the multiplicity of our inherent possibilities...
...which her intentions for PBH remain unclear. Key questions regarding staffing levels and patterns, fundraising, and space allocation remain in dispute. It is unclear what--if any--meaningful input those affected by the decisions will have. She has held unpublicized meetings about space allocation in PBH in the context of a supposedly "open" process to discuss this issue...