- Title
- Gazing at Exhibit A
- Creator
- Krueger, Anton
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229643
- Identifier
- vital:49696
- Identifier
- xlink:href="http://liminalities.net/9-1/exhibit.pdf"
- Description
- Brett Bailey recently toured a new work in Europe and South Africa, called The Exhibit Series (2010-2013). In different countries the work has appeared under different titles—Exhibit A and Exhibit B, while Exhibit C will be produced in 2014. These productions replicate and parody ethnographic spectacles of the nineteenth century, interrogating European colonial atrocities in Africa, as well as contemporary xenophobia. They consist of a series of installations housed in individual rooms that audience members enter one by one. Inside these rooms one is confronted by beautifully arranged spectacles referencing historical atrocities committed in Namibia by German speaking peoples, as well as atrocities under the Belgian and French colonial regimes in the two Congos. The “exhibits” also include references to more recent incidents of European racism against migrants from Africa. The work has been both applauded and derided. In Berlin, for example, activists called it “a human zoo” and protested that this was “the wrong way to discuss a violent colonial history,”1 while others have called the work “haunting”, praising the production for its “dignity” and “beauty.”2
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (13 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Liminalities
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Liminalities: a journal of performance studies, Krueger, A., 2013. Gazing at Exhibit A: Interview with Brett Bailey. Liminalities: a journal of performance studies, 9(1), pp.1-13, Liminalities: a journal of performance studies volume 9 number 1 p. 1 2013 1557-2935
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 3.0 International) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
- Rights
- Open Access
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Krueger, Anton (Prof)
RU Department of Drama
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