Word: seems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...side, a single white beam illuminating its slightly skewed seat. The accompanying placard describes the photographer's intentions to use "art as a process of social dialogue," but the social dialogue of a fallen toilet bowl is rather unclear. Because Casebere's photos are mostly white, they seem like mere Braille against an ascetic backdrop, as though touching the prints would convey more information than the simple act of viewing...
...luring viewers inward, where the largest photographs--some nearly six feet tall--line the dark gray walls of the smallish room. Lighting is wisely kept at a minimum. In theory, this would allow the photographs themselves to suffuse the room with patches of brightness. While a ghostly luminescence does seem to be emitted by some of the prints, supplemental track lighting glances off the glass of the smaller works, casting angular reflections on the hardwood floor that mimic the exhibit's strict geometrical lines...
...country dances but also encompassing slower memorial and funerary pieces as well as early canons. My favorite piece of the evening was a series of variations by Jacob Reys on the popular tune Une Jeune Fillette, in which the melody is tossed back and fourth between two voices that seem never quite to catch it. The melody is continually in the air, bouncing like a beach ball on the contrapunctal complexity of the music...
...surprise, then, that the leaders of the sweatshop protests have decided to revive this strategy. Building takeovers, like most of the conventions of the '60s anti-war movement, hold an undeniable nostalgic appeal, especially now when student apathy seems to be hitting new highs. We imagine the protesters of the '60s as ideologically pure, people who renamed University Hall after Che Guevara--and meant it. It seems the protesters today are trying to prove they have the same zeal. The protesters at Georgetown certainly didn't decide to take over O'Donovan's office solely to evoke the radical romanticism...
...doesn't seem like the current crop of student activists have even tried to make that calculation: protesters occupying buildings today do so almost as if it's part of a public relations game. The headline "Students Occupy President's Office" no longer resonates with earthshaking, symbolic significance; it's a tired cliche. Administrators at Duke hardly took the students occupying their offices seriously, instead praising them for their cleanliness and studiousness. Everyone seems to have forgotten that, however routine and perfunctory taking over administration buildings may have become, symbolic action can become very real, very quickly. The potential...