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Originally Posted by DVTimes
A controversial art performance featuring black actors in a recreation of a "human zoo" has been called off after protests at its opening night.
Exhibit B, staged by The Barbican at The Vaults venue in London, was to have involved actors in chains and cages.
The Barbican said it confronted "the abhorrent historical attitudes to race during the colonial era" but protesters said the work was offensive and racist.
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I get the point of the exhibit, but who really wants to see imagery like that,
besides some bondage freak.
Bottom line is that when you deal with something like this from real history, you have to limit how graphic you are because the reality is too ugly for the average viewer.