Word: exhibit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exhibit consists of pieces of imperial red parchment mounted on sticks of bamboo. Yes, you heard correctly: bamboo. Using bamboo sticks for a display that questions Asian American stereotypes is the equivalent of triumphantly shouting, "Ah-so! Me breakee stereotypes!" Come on people, get with the program. This is the nineties and the medium is the message...
...spectacle would be complete without a gimmick, and this one is no exception. The text of the exhibit is broken up in entirely random places, frequently in the middle of words. In this case, form mirrors content: both are equally...
...result of this cheap word ploy? Paragraphs like this one, in which the essential "message" of the exhibit is expressed: "...for the/next time you/see someone wi/th dark hair and/brown or yello/w skin and wan/t to identify the/m with the term/asian american/realize that ho/w you see them/may or may not/be how they ch/oose to/identify/themselves...
...display has taken free verse to a ridiculous and grotesque extreme. We speculate that this was done for (melo) dramatic effect, but it does not succeed in moving us. Call us unfeeling. Call us not trendy enough. But the exhibit's stubborn refusal to acknowledge the wholeness of words and the rules of grammar just gives us a headache...
...Children's Museum. 300 Congress Street, 426-8855. Current exhibits include: the Climbing Sculpture, a two-story suspended puzzle piece climbing maze; Climbing the wall, a rock climbing exhibit; El Mercado De Barrio, a replica of a Latino neighborhood market in Boston; Teen Tokyo, an exhibition on fashion, food, sports, music, art and school and family life for kids in Japan; Jump Up! Boston's Caribbean Carnival; and Powwow, an exhibition of photographs of Arapahoe and Shoshone powwows...