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abaya: i posted the artist statement earlier in the thread (no. 21) and the interpretation that the project is in a bizarre way still operative with this outcome in no. 70.
it's a good project in that sense---while obviously it was not designed to turn out as it did, it still works.
and we are all performing the fact that it does.
except now there's the added twist of wondering whether by doing that, we're aesthetising a rape and a murder.
which we are, no matter what any individual post says--once you start treating this as an example of a type and then shifting to generalized explanations for it, you're in that game. and it is an ugly game.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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