Art show Exhibit B called off after racism protests
 

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'm actually quite sad that it took us protesting outside the opening night for them to decide to cancel it, because we had been trying to negotiate with them for the last month [saying] that this is offensive and we don't like it," she said.

"We also tried to explain to them why it's racist. They kept saying, 'No it's not.'"

Almost 23,000 people signed Ms Myers' petition calling the show "an outrageous act of complicit racism".

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One stupid BITCH!!!!
Since when does a small group, yes, 23k is small, of dimwitted fucks get to censor art and artists!??
Stupid people should be sterilized.

I heard her on the radio, she came up against one of the actors in the show and he completely destroyed every argument she had. it left her just repeating the old standby that "it's racist" but couldn't explain why (as he'd proved how it wasn't) so just kept on repeating "racist" in the hope that word would bulldozer her view across.
Like you said, a stupid bitch.

should have been shitcanned for having the up your own arse description of "the abhorrent historical attitudes to race during the colonial era" than for any 'racism'. Satisfactory conclusion I'd say, even if the method was fucked up.

You write some funny shit. You available for blog posts?

The images I saw actually made me want to travel back in time and ask my Norman/Irish ancestors not do what they did...but you know...shit happens.

WTF??? what about the 800K Irish sold into slavery ???

Check my sig. My family is from Scotland. We prefer to be in shackles. We voted to remain in them.

For those in the UK, she phoned in ch5's write stuff, and admited she has not even seen the show.

she sounded a right plonka.

Disappointed. not one shout of "worldstar hiphop"!

that.. sounds crazy

I get the point of the exhibit, but who really wants to see imagery like that,
besides some bondage freak.

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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.

You mean the ones who rented themselves out for a boat ride across the pond or???
Google indentured service vs slavery.

I think you're wrong. If average viewer cannot handle it...don't look.

When I saw the muzzle mask given to house servants bringing food from the kitchen...it was jolting. I read about it, imagined it, and thought, "gee, that sucked". Seeing the actor portraying the slave in a muzzle mask....that was jolting to a whole new level.

I'd like to see the exhibition. :2 cents: