http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2009/09/06/import_more_of_this/ Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:29:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2009/09/06/import_more_of_this/#comment-832 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:31:18 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2009/09/06/import_more_of_this/#comment-832 I wasn’t able to see it (unfortunate since it was at PCS where I work), but I wonder if the head-spinning, provocative reaction is partially due to our uniquely-progressive it’s-all-good, Portland-liberal bearing. As a city, we’ve delved so little into racially or culturally-charged work and have not really had to hurdle over identity politic-driven art like other big (more integrated) cities, of comparable size. Was the work so solid or did the subversion (authenticating our liberal feelings about race/culture/class) merely titillate? He asks rhetorically.
An overheard assessment piqued my interest, post-facto: “It has a big ‘gotcha’ that got me, so at the time I liked it. It was also rigorous and well performed and fun…but afterward it felt thin. . . for all her desires to push buttons, I think that if you’re a white person who’s done a little more thinking than your average NPR listener, this will not seem so transgressive.”

]]> http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2009/09/06/import_more_of_this/#comment-831 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:59:59 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2009/09/06/import_more_of_this/#comment-831 I totally agree. The Shipment was incredible.

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