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Click/Mark each block when you see or hear these words and phrases. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, stand up and shout "L'Art Pour L'Art". Or play as a drinking game and for every block you mark off, take a sip, and finish your drink each time you get five blocks in a row.
| video pieces interviewing people how hard it is to be famous or the child of someone famous | Foucault, Adorno, Derrida or Baudrillard mentioned in the opening speech/catalogue | show on identity advertised with a photograph of an easily clockable trans* or nonbinary person | "insights into the 21st centuries' sexual psyche" = photographs of Berliners fucking while taking selfies | "don't get too close to the works" - which are very tiny and really hard to see |
| postcolonial kitsch | "boldly experiments with form" = paints oil on canvas, but sometimes stabs the canvas | "web artist" = has an Instagram | "examination of taxonomies and power relations" = showcasing taxidermied animals to prove the artist really, REALLY "got" that first chapter of "The Order Of Things" | "celebrating diversity" - audience 95% white, 5% waitstaff |
| it's not illustration, it's contemporary representational art b/c it's oil on canvas, it has this very en vogue washed-out plain color palette, the ironic distance of the New Leipzig School, is unfinished in places, and there are DRIPPINGS | "please lock your backpack in" - all the art they show is just disrespectfully, obscenely large and heavy statues and canvasses no one person could ever lift or damage | ART BULLSHIT BINGO (free square) | ten minute still one-take digital video (50 mm lens) filming a a bra on a piece of toast: "made with the generous help of the [important benefactor]'s art fund" | Arte Povera style shit larger than a moderately middle class apartment |
| anti-establishment artist sucked into the system, looking dead inside | video piece: disembodied narrator talking over footage of LA/NY/Berlin/Shanghai b/c the artist had a nice big city residency once | artist collective using no individual names because FOR SURE anonymity is how we get over the cult of personality and genius | "the liquid self" = show on Internet culture and art like it's 1997 | artist's bio lists the same ten grants and galleries in the same order as the last ten artists shown at this institution |
| "challenging the colonial lens" = white curator inviting twelve Black artists to explain racism to a white audience | ostentatiously non-white cube architecture (i.e. former factory building) | "intertextual meta-narratives problematizing a disembodied subjectivity..."-waffling | in a baffling attempt to be inclusive, the interpretation of an artist's entire body of work is reduced to their biography/trauma/disability or their cultural-social background/identity/heritage | appropriation of Japanese pop culture is okay when it's all gaudy and oversized on purpose because gaudy and oversized equals ironic |