Logbook Entry #18
The question of whether the exhibition can be public or private has been resolved. The decision was to keep the exhibition private- open to purple NYU ID holders only, to remove the names of the artists from the banner or any advertising, visitors could not take or upload any photos, and there would be a staff member set up outside to check IDs.
Additionally, there was one artwork from Gulf Labor’s 52 Weeks that I was asked not to include, because it implied violence and it approached the dangerous boundary of being interpreted as criticizing the government, which is illegal. In order to be able to still display the full 52 Weeks, my mentors and I decided that I could include a blank poster with the label of the work that would have been there along with the phrase ‘Artwork not on display- culturally sensitive’. So while I didn’t include the poster, I still managed to include the work in making it’s absence obvious. By including the label as I would have had the poster been on the wall, I was not obscuring what the work was. Visitors could easily find the work on Gulf Labor’s website as all of the works from 52 Weeks are open source, and some did.
The work that we did not display but was still included through the use of a blank page:
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