Black + Blue: What Not To Do
BLACK & BLUE : What Not To Do
Milepost 5
900 NE 81st Ave, Portland
Lofts Building, Unit 208
Opening Reception: 6-9PM, Saturday, November 21
Hours: 3-5PM, Saturdays/Sundays and by appointment
(503-729-3223 or info@milepostfive.com)
Statement: Trying to sell condominiums is impossible with inappropriate “art” inside its communal hallways – so its all been taken down and “moved” to room 208. The show has been renamed from Blue Humor (Funny Dirty Wrong) to Black & Blue: What Not To Do, an exhibition about what wounds us. By appointment only with limited viewing hours for the extent of its run, difficult to access works of photography, drawing and installation riff on holy terror, economic meltdowns, beat down and broken forms and the unspecific objects that fuel our divisive ism and phobia cultures. It’s difficult to leave your door and be confronted by things that are obscene and appalling. This curatorial intervention also continues to experiment with Live/work residencies as ritual spaces that promise to create a critical nexus of all types from our creative economy for all types in our creative class. Sometimes the violence in the hall is so loud and physical that you can hear it in every room-even behind closed doors. Managing and controlling the random forces in life can be difficult for some. For some the difficult forces help manage random life. Two of the original artists that appeared in Blue Humor have asked not to be included in Blue & Black as a response to being censored.
-Victor Maldonado, Curator
Tags: Black and Blue, Milepost 5, Victor Maldonado, What Not to Do
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Victor, Victor, Victor….I’ve said it before when that obviously talentless Mapplethorpe hung those abominations toward mankind. How could anyone make anything like that?…in my world we show restraint…restraint in our lives make us ignorant and simple. Two qualities I admire. Also, just because something is true doesn’t mean you have to hold it up to the world for all to see…we prefer to turn our heads, sit on our hands and throw it in the closet. You could learn a lesson or two. Rome fell because it didn’t show restraint. Is that what you want here?
Oh dear…God’s work will never be done.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I just hope darrell was kidding
otherwise the world surely will go down because of ignorance
that is the true reason Rome fell at least in my book
God help us all
is the show still up?
November 24th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
totally in jest Richard, but the sad part is there are people like that right in our back yards sucking the life out of us.
I don’t much like censorship.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/blogs/culturephile-portland-arts/black-and-blue/