Highlights include videos from Bill Viola's immersive Martyrs series, about the endurance and infliction of suffering for beliefs (Earth Martyr, Air Martyr, Fire Martyr, and Water Martyr, 2014); The Propeller Group's sculptural freeze -
frames of bullets fired into ballistics gel
designed to simulate the effect of wounds (Universe of Collisions series, 2015); Liza Lou's hovering, gatelike sculpture covered in millions of gold - plated beads and providing no real protection (Barricade, 2007 − 8); and a commissioned wall drawing by Tirtzah Bassel (Concourse, 2016) that
examines how familiar emblems of airline travel — freedom, adventure, global connection — have become entangled with notions of vulnerability and disempowerment.
They refer to these strategies as message
design logics, and essentially
examine how people
frame requests and the amount of compliance they are able to gain.1 As it turns out, whether or not you get what you want may be the result of how you ask, more so than what you ask for.