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|confronting_bodies=Barbican | |confronting_bodies=Barbican | ||
|medium=Installation, Performance Art | |medium=Installation, Performance Art | ||
|date_of_action=23 | |date_of_action=September 23 ,2014 | ||
|location=London | |location=London | ||
|description_of_content=Exhibit B critiques the ‘human zoos’ and ethnographic displays that showed Africans as objects of scientific curiosity through the 19th and early 20th centuries, translated here into twelve tableaux, each featuring motionless performers placed in settings drawn from real life. Collectively they confront colonial atrocities committed in Africa, European notions of racial supremacy and the plight of immigrants today. | |description_of_content=Exhibit B critiques the ‘human zoos’ and ethnographic displays that showed Africans as objects of scientific curiosity through the 19th and early 20th centuries, translated here into twelve tableaux, each featuring motionless performers placed in settings drawn from real life. Collectively they confront colonial atrocities committed in Africa, European notions of racial supremacy and the plight of immigrants today. | ||