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Art Exhibit
The excerpt above is culled from Antonin Artaud’s writings on theatre whose reference to cruelty is often wrongly construed as synonymous with sadism. There is no doubt that Artuad’s framework for a new, revolutionary theatre carried with it a poetics of transgression; yet, his unique aesthetic approach to the stage with its subtext of violence was neither gratuitous nor for shock value. Rather, what he sought to attack was the inertia of a theatre that expressed a lifeless art to a complacent audience and coupled together, became an impotent pairing of art and life that inadvertently benefited the status quo. Analogously, contemporary art recently seems to be suffering from its own particular strain of indifference; an acquiescent attitude which the exhibition entitled Theatre of Cruelty seeks to remedy. The artists in the exhibition diagnose and treat this malaise in myriad thematic ways via a plethora of media including video, painting, photography, sculpture, works-on-paper, audio-work, and installation. Artists exhibited include:
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