'Resistance' (ART) Donna Stack's installation (shouldn't throw stones) is a life-size stained-glass pup tent sitting on the gallery floor, beset by an advancing army of little red figurines. Inside the tent, a screen plays footage from the Twin Tower attacks, the Indian Ocean tsunami, an Iraqi man on all fours at Abu Ghraib, and other documentary footage from mass TV broadcasts. It's part of Resistance, a current-events-minded show featuring Stack and her regular collaborator Andrew Kaufman. (Punch Gallery, 119 Prefontaine Place S, 621-1945. 5—8 pm, free.) JEN GRAVES
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Well...it may be hackneyed and cliche, but at least it's life-sized!
Shouldn't political art reflect the outrage people have with government?
Was Ezra Pound, although an anti-semite, the last American artist to be convicted for treason because of harsh critiques toward U.S. war involvement? He was the greatest force in the advancement of poetry (look him up), then dismissed with torture and virtually put to death in apt relation to soldiers who fight. Lately most 'thought provoking' artists, not consiously, work toward various prizes (Cannes, Nobel, grant money, etc.)
Leave the entertainment to comics and musicians who perform for the troops. Pound's extremism should at least set the bar for trying to achieve impact.
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