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March 05, 2006
A "Post" Post
Back in 2001 Thelma ushered in a new era when she coined the (slippery) term “post black”… Well, it’s five years later and look how far we’ve come. I’m still trying to tease out the finer points of what it could actually mean to be “post” your racial identity and Jerry Saltz ups the ante! Apparently we are now in a period of “ Post America”. This from his review of the Whitney Biennial:
"Day for Night" is filled with work I’m not interested in; it tries to do too much in too little space; it is often dry and confusing. Nevertheless, the show is a compelling attempt to examine conceptual practices and political agency, consider art that is not about beauty, reconsider reductivism, explore the possibility of an underground in plain sight, probe pre-modern and archaic approaches, posit destruction and chaos as creative forces, and revisit ideas about obfuscation and anonymity.
Interesting. And then there's this:
Finally, to anyone who thinks that the "Peace Tower," right now on Madison Avenue in front of the Whitney, but originally built in 1965 to protest Vietnam War, is silly or ineffectual: Now is the first time it has needed to be built again.
Flaws and all, Day for Night speaks to a nation that is no longer an ideal but only a country. That makes this the Post-America Biennial.
Miles Davis, RU Legal, 1991 (anonymous collection)
I might have to check it out... just to see an oil painting by Miles Davis. HA.
Posted by lk at March 5, 2006 09:18 AM