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Cockroaches, 1993-94) is creepily potent. Her monitors are set up on the lowest level of the ICA, in a corner draped in black, appropriately damp and smelling faintly of sewage. Cockroaches accomplishes a disturbing transference of emotion. Already slightly queasy at the sight of six inch cockroaches, the viewer is easily horrified by the appearance of Germans in gas masks speaking calmly and matter-of-factly about efficient modes of extermination. Bedarski's parallel is clever, subversive and electric...
Unfortunately, the viewer finds himself asking the same question. Why is it so hard to recall the Holocaust through through this exhibition? The artists expect a lot of themselves, but so do the observers. There is a self-induced pressure to understand, not just mentally, but viscerally, the horror of mass death. Burnt Whole fails to produce the necessary gut reaction, leaving the viewer confused, between guilt and disappointment...
...signed up-have no choice other than to be sick." By presenting them on videotape, she reasoned, the choreographer has "crossed the line between theatre and reality. I can't review someone I feel sorry for or hopeless about." More generally, Croce decried "victim art," art that forces the viewer to pity "dissed blacks, abused women or disenfranchised homosexuals...
...depiction of their relationship, astonishingly devoid of stereotype, is the movie's greatest strength. The women interact in a manner that is tender and uncontrived, and neither is ever seen listening to Melissa Etheridge or reading Sisterhood Is Global. Despite the women's differences, the viewer does not question their love. They offer each other a sense of peace, and the heroine seems to have, for the first time in her life, another's unflinching support...
...King, as they call themselves, have a job to perform--they must display their lives as model, and their family as exemplary. When at last the family stands reunited on the steps of Saint Paul's for the celebration of George's recovery, Hynter manages to make the viewer believe that this is indeed a heroic act. Tragic, comic, and heroic--"The Madness of King George" really lives up to long-forgotten standards of entertainment...