Not exact matches
From Chow's dank prison escape over the credits to the men's listless search for him at Caesar's Palace, there's an oddly fatalistic air that hangs over each major set - piece, which is only intensified
by a repeated and unexplained
violence against animals just barely played for laughs.
A gash of
violence finally decides the lady's fate, but we're so numbed
by that point
by speeches that repeat the same points with different
animal metaphors that the resolution carries little impact — as these two might say, like a sparrow thudding
against a window.
Fortunately the
violence of the powertrain is reasonably tranquilized
by big Brembo brakes, but the whole experience has all the subtlety of a pit bull lunging
against its chain, only to be tasered
by someone from
animal control.
We conduct campaigns
against domestic
violence by demonstrating the proven link between
animal abuse and said
violence.
The works in this collection are supremely imaginative in both form and content: from the semi-autobiographical novel painted
by a young artist who died in the Holocaust (Charlotte Salomon) to Alison Knowles» computer - generated chance operation for «imagining» houses and their inhabitants; from the pseudo-scientific examination of a conversation between a mother and a daughter (Eleanor Antin) to the dark, comic interrogation of
violence against women (Sue Williams); from the transformations of newspaper headlines (Suzanne Treister) to the probing of
animal consciousness (Cole Swensen & Shari De Graw); from the body maps drawn
by South African women with AIDS (Bambanani Women's Group) to the alchemical transformation of the pregnant body into an evolving landscape and philosophical meditation (Susan Hiller).