Saw it with less time than I would have liked (we were with another couple who seemed a little bored and were moving fast). I think I missed a couple of entire rooms at least.
My favorite things involved video: the Omer Fast piece and the Mika Rottenberg installation especially, and I also liked the Edgar Arcenaux thing with the multiple screens of David Allen Grier. Also liked Jason Rhoades's and Phoebe Washburn's installations. Got a big kick out of the raffle poster for a trip to the Triangle Motel/Glendale Overpass and sort of wish I bought a ticket. A fair amount of the show was, admittedly, boring.
I noticed there was relatively little art that engaged in an overt, direct way with a current political issue or societal trend (though some work did so in a quieter way). A lot of emphasis on personal languages and worlds, relatively little obvious appropriation of styles or symbols compared to past shows. Also more subdued, less stylish.
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:14 (eighteen years ago)