Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Who is Voldemort and what is he like?

I'm working on a curatorial proposal. Here's the brief:

Who is Voldemort and what is he like?

What is the cultural value of entertainment? While much of current discourse dictates that art must be oppositional in order to be valid, how do we rectify humanity's apparent need for entertainment as proven by a culture glutted with wildly popular, non-oppositional broadcast programming, blockbuster cinema, and internet memes? This exhibition aims to explore the question of who we are supposed to be opposing and why, and maintains the view that while it is important to question the ideas we consume and their sources, non-oppositional entertainment culture need not be demonized by default.

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