... was my favorite piece in the current show. When you enter the room there are rows of antique desks just like a classroom with a blackboard and a front and "school like" (at first glance) art on the walls. Strangely, the next time I entered the room the desks were all piled up in a sculpture-esque way. Upon further research I discovered it was a performance (that I had sadly missed). The use of the desks was very nostalgic and reminded me of when I was in elementary school. For any viewer, the antique quality could have made it feel like it was the same desks from their school days! The many school like things, upon closer look, were not things that would have been in a classroom, and were most likely the reason the show was titled "Decolonization". There was a picture of George Washington that would be found in any school, but it was created out of crackers. Books were on shelves, but decorated and drawn in. There was a picture of a man's feet standing on a stack of books. In the back on two chalkboards were two rather violent images. One of the blackboards was titled "Is slavery dead? Emancipation Proclamation". The scene was clearly early America, but containing a lot of violence. The chalkboard drawing on the other side of the wall was artists who had their heads cut off by a giant man with a sword. A table of elements was present too, but it spelled out the alphabet. Some of the example words were certainly not kid friendly! J stood for Jackass.
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The nostalgia of this piece mixed with the well thought out surrounding artwork made for a very interesting instillation.
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