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{{Display censorship incident | {{Display censorship incident | ||
|ongoing=no | |ongoing=no | ||
|year=2014 | |year=2014 | ||
|region=Europe | |region=Europe | ||
|artist=Brett Bailey | |artist=Brett Bailey | ||
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|confronting_bodies=Barbican | |confronting_bodies=Barbican | ||
|medium=Installation, Performance Art | |medium=Installation, Performance Art | ||
|date_of_action=September 23 ,2014 | |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. | ||
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"We believe this piece should be shown in London and are disturbed at the potential implications this silencing of artists and performers has for freedom of expression." | "We believe this piece should be shown in London and are disturbed at the potential implications this silencing of artists and performers has for freedom of expression." | ||
|description_of_result=Brett Bailey told a | |description_of_result=The Barbican show was permanently canceled and the Barbican was widely criticized for the cancellation. Brett Bailey told a journalist from Dazeddigital.com that Exhibit B would be shown in Russia, France and Chile and elsewhere. | ||
|image=Exhibit B.jpg | |image=Exhibit B.jpg | ||
|source=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/exhibit-b-human-zoo-show-cancelled-by-the-barbican-following-protest-9753519.html | |source=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/exhibit-b-human-zoo-show-cancelled-by-the-barbican-following-protest-9753519.html | ||