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...Fences" succeeds as a compelling portrayal of black life in a time of great discrimination just on the verge of the Civil Rights movement. Yet the main themes and the dysfunctionality in many of the relationships can relate to the viewers' own lives. The play raises provocative questions that can only be answered by introspection. This cathartic effect is a testimony to how deeply the superb acting affects the viewer...
Kosuth demonstrates a most literal attention to self-consciousness and selfinvestigation in his pieces from the 1970s. A series of four photographs from 1975 shows questionnaires that Kosuth demanded that his viewers complete before leaving the gallery. The questionnaire asks the viewer to respond not only to the work, which is not shown in the MIT exhibit, but also to contemporary politics, such that one questionnaire mentions U.S. foreign policy with Cuba...
...photos, by far the most visually compelling and intellectually intriguing pieces in the exhibit, show paragraphs of original prose, printed on billboards that blend into the cityscape, even capturing people's candid reactions to the esoteric signs. A knowledge of German, French or other European languages would help the viewer because no translations accompany these photographs. But there are enough photos of billboards in New York and California that the English-speaking viewer can gather the general meaning and formula for all the others...
Each sign commences with a question. "Can you read this?" says one New York billboard, before it delves into an examination of its own meaning and purpose, while challenging conventional notions of the relationship between art and culture. In each piece Kosuth thereby brings the viewer immediately into the discourse...
...From the viewer's perspective, it is obviously more history than drama, but the reenactments cast an air of artificiality on the very facts it needs to stay true to. In fact, the film seems intended to get people thinking about how history is created and how it is created out of documents...