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Art is made of metaphor. Text and subtext, the second and
third dimensions, the narrative and the still, the random and
the deliberate, live in inconceivable identification. This
unreasonable, volatile, perfectly risky space of metaphor, is
peace. In all our outrage and manifesto, contradiction and
yearning, peace is the house we occupy and open, like
breathing opens, a place where even painful wisdom pushes to
possibility, to knowledge past reason and affinity across
divides....
Despite his own harrowing youth [or, in fact, out of the
distress itself], Okello Kelo Sam, artistic director of
Uganda's Ndere Troupe, feels that through music and dance,
through live encounter, artists work out a responsibility to
cause greater openness -- to expand capacity for feeling and
speaking against a stunning pressure towards numbness and
silence.
-- Erik Ehn
We have art so
that we shall not be destroyed by the truth.
-- Friedrich
Nietzsche
Artists showing in "The Male Gaze" at the powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn include: From
left, at bottom: Qing Liu, Christian Holstad, Joe Ovelman, Slava Mogutin; in middle: Scott Hug, Ezra Rubin, J. Morrison, AA Bronson, Brian Kenny; at top: Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Futoshi Miyagi. (photo by Joe Fornabaio for The New York Times)
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