A multi-channel video installation in which performers recite six different peace speeches that were once delivered by different Colombian political leaders whose ideologies have resulted in their own assassinations. To read more and watch the videos follow the link:
2. Marzipan Boxes. Ten wooden boxes containing marzipan confections shaped like fetuses in different stages of development. They are arranged in the style of Ernst Haeckel’s 1874 illustration from Anthropogenie. The artist selects 70 of the most important people in human history according to his own criteria. The embryos are then labeled with the given names of those individuals. Christopher K. Ho believes in the inevitable obliteration of history and humanity in the distant future. The boxes of edible icons mimic the hypothesis of embryological parallelism while highlighting the inevitable perishability of the human race.
Reading Thierry de Duve’s essay about Art Education I finally came to realize why I felt so uninspired at the end of college. In When Form Becomes Attitude, he talks about deconstruction as the new form of teaching art in college (this essay is from 1994 but it’s still pretty true, at least at RISD).
There are a couple of problems here. It is the method of deconstruction that has evolved with postmodernism that smothers art students into quiet despair, or else it drives them into a drunken stupor by the end of senior year. According to this model there is always a way to take apart verbally a work of art (or anything else) and to figure out what it is about. It presupposes that categorization is an inherent factor of critiquing art.
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