Monday, Feb 2, 2009: Starting the Conversation: Memorializing Guantanamo, Part I. Hosted by The Cultural Production Department, Brandeis University Roundtable participants: Julian Bonder, Janet Echelman, Michael Ratner, Moderated by Mark Auslander. (Feldberg Lounge, Hassenfeld Conference Center) Once the U.S. detention camps in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are closed, what should become of them? What art, monumental, memorial or museum projects might emerge on the sites or related locations around the world?
Haha what a load of empty rhetoric.
The unseemly eagerness with which people are seizing on Guantanamo to imbue their work with "significance" is precisely what makes art-activism so dull and devoid of significance. Frivolous political pet causes latched onto by "artists" dying to lend their work contemporary urgency and relevance = FAIL!
sklanger 3 years ago