Sunday, January 22, 2017

THE WAKE

made this horse pill slightly easier to swallow The venue was small and intimate, filled with emotions, namely anger and fear. A collection of artists trying to put a physical representation to these feelings.



"You're in Over Your Head" by Brian Tellock

The show played on the absurdities in the media and the death of American Exceptionalism. It is so strange to see this thing which began over a year ago as what seemed like a crude joke grow, take roots in America's oppressive systems, and take hold of the most powerful government position in the world. But the show exemplifies the art which comes out of resistance. Wherever there is struggle, there is also artists who use their work as a means of protest. The variations in perspectives allow for a fuller emotional image of the ways an individual copes with times of stress or struggle.

"Communication Elegy: Death of the Truth" by Mike Tar

I love the simplicity in this piece. The way that the narrative of this election is halted from the crude and unforgiving to a simple and clear image exemplifying the divisiveness of the current culture, and the ways in which America has lost a hold of what is true. The media has distorted how one perceives truth, which has never been more relevant, with the new digestible media creating the "myth of a green pasture in a world of innocence" (72). Although Trump doesn't present the world outside of America as necessarily innocent, although possibly ignorant of what he claims America is possible of, his entire campaign ran on the assumption of America as the green pasture, an idea which the media perpetuated though their inability to critique it.

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