The exhibition Brett Bailey on slavery aroused strong controversy. As she left Paris in December 12, return to some texts it has inspired.
Since the end of November and return in the Hexagon (after his arrival at the Avignon Festival in 2013 and 104 in Paris last season), the exhibition-installation “Exhibit B”, designed by South African director Brett Bailey scene, triggered a boiling controversy and extreme reactions. This Friday, December 12th is the last day in Paris. It will then leave for Chile and Australia, where it will be mounted through the involvement of other actors, performers, recruited locally.
To think about all the issues that have emerged from the shadow on the occasion of the controversy (How to represent the memory of slavery? Should be black to talk about it? Can we ban a show? Should we present the works of art in any context? ), here’s a selection of different points of view and argued, articles and forums, official positions, crossed over the Internet.
• The text of Louis-Georges Tin, president of the Representative Council of Black Associations in France (Cran) and lecturer at the University of Orleans
• grandstand D ‘Kabal, author, rapper, slammer, director stage, performer and poet, on the site of 104
• Chronic Pascal Blanchard in the World , historian of the French colonial empire, researcher CNRS: “Human zoos are it back? “
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