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Queer Voices at the ICA

Queer Voice, at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA ), University of Pennsylvania through August 1, 2010 is an exhibition organized around an idea: that a number of artists since the 1960s have created narrative or performance-based work that emphasizes the voice, the voice distorted or manipulated such that gender is divorced from sex and/or gender is undistinguishable: a queer voice.  And this queer voice, in turn, establishes a queer or de-familiarized space for the audience. That the work of the nine artists does not clearly support this thesis, or that the thesis misses the most significant aspects of the ... More » »

Outer Spacey

Mars is the place in Pittsburgh The theme of the upcoming 2008 Carnegie International is life on Mars. Initial thoughts turn to evil Martians developing weapons of mass destruction that will one day rain down on our Earth as they invade to take over our melting planet. But no, we are assured that the show is about “what it means to be human in the world today.” In fact a show about what it means to be human — and maybe by extension what the future of humankind might be — sounds, if not jolly, then at least very, very ... More » »