http://artpdf.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/croce-oates_crisis-of-criticism_1994.pdf
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1994/12/26/1994_12_26_054_TNY_CARDS_000369157
A Critic At Bay about Bill T. Jones's piece "Still/Here," and the trend towards 'victim art' in the nineties. Jones's show, at the Brooklyn Academy, presents people (as he has in the past) who are terminally ill and talk about it. Jones has AIDS. Croce refuses to review the piece and defends her choice. Jones had his origins as a choreographer in the Dada experimentation of the sixties. By working dying people into his act, Jones is putting himself beyond the reach of criticism. The dying people are viewed on videotape. Jones has crossed the line between theatre and reality--he thinks that victimhood in and of itself is sufficient to the creation of an art spectacle. The cultivation of victimhood by institutions devoted to the care of art is a menace to all art forms. Croce can't review someone she feels sorry for or hopeless about and more...
I thought of the Croce article in relation to Helina's project and may be of interest to others too.
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