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While many of the songs on Wah Wah are interesting, engrossing and innovative, the album is not without its flaws. For one thing, it's really, really long (23 tracks), and since the music is free-form and improvisational, after a while the songs start to run together and sound the same. You can only listen to so much of Wah Wah in one sitting. Also, it takes some concentration to get into many of the grooves; if you're not in the mood to be "set adrift", the meandering tunes may just lose your interest. Lastly, all the disembodied...
What he really wants to do after college: I'd like to spend some years after college going around the country with my roommates performing free-form explorational poetry...
...sews together into teeming clumps or exhibits, in solitary pathos, on mats on the floor. You can cite a host of precedents for this, from Claes Oldenburg to Jackson Pollock, but the effect really depends on the nakedness with which Kelley presents the toys as elements in a free-form psychodrama about threat and vulnerability; they're like the dolls that witch- hunting lawyers use to elicit the evidence of children in abuse prosecutions. The most successful thing in the Whitney show is a reworking of Man Ray's famous Surrealist object, the wrapped-up sewing machine. Entitled Lumpenprole...
Davis asserts in his artist's statement (each artist provided the gallery a personal explanation of the methods and inspiration for their works): "A landscape, a series of free-form lines, or even a tiny hole in a piece of paper can all be equally definable as drawings--they're all `drawn' from the mind of ideas." His statement seems to embody the sentiment of the jury that chose the works for the show; this broad definition of drawing makes for a vital and unique collection...
...obviously, "the end of history" has a dark, chaotic side. The collapse of the binary cold war configuration has produced an unstable, free-form arrangement of forces and impulses loose in the world, often traveling forward or backward at high historical speed. The world moves along a double track, tending toward one extreme or the other -- toward economic internationalism and electronic interpenetrations, for example, and at the same time toward monomaniacal nationalisms. Toward intelligent tolerance on the one hand and toward irrational religious tribalisms on the other. The trouble is that the dark side tends to gain when fear...