THE THEATER OF REFUSAL

Updated documentation of The Theater of Refusal on the exhibition's 30th anniversary. In 1993, at the University of California, Irvine, Charles Gaines and Catherine Lord mounted a category-breaking exhibition of Black artists from different generations, working across Fluxus, Conceptualism, assemblage, photography and installation. Challenging the racializing of Black artists work, the exhibition confronted the discourse around race difference in the United States by including excerpts of writing by art critics who had discussed the f...[Llegir més]