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| 'What you must think.' These posters have appeared on walls around La Candelaria and other parts of Bogotá. |
El Parqueadero, an underground section of the Museo de Arte complex in La Candelaria, held a bunch of exhibitions this evening about what you should think, more or less.
These posters, by an arts group, satirize the recently-introduced section titles in El Tiempo, Colombia's leading newspaper: 'Debes Leer,' 'Debes Saber,' 'Debes Hacer,' etc. Certainly pretty self-assuming - but do they reflect or lead to a general lack of thinking for ones-self?
On the other hand, can public exhibits, like this one by an arts group called
Acciones Directas, really prompt people to think for themselves? I haven't seen many signs of it.
But most of the other exhibits had even less of a concrete message.
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| Brushing classes. |
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| Dining as performance. |
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| Gaitan looks back from 1,000 peso bill. |
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| Bad portraits for 1,000 pesos. |
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| 'Dream, Dance, Eat' - Maybe that's life. |
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| This exhibit's message was much clearer. |
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| As is this one, critical of genetically modified organisms. But if you really think about it, millions of us have grown up eating GMOs, with no apparent ill effects. |
By Mike Ceaser, of
Bogotá Bike Tours
El Parqueadero, an underground section of the Museo de Arte complex in La Candelaria, held a bunch of exhibitions this evening about what you should think, more or less.
It should be:
ReplyDeleteDon't watch tv
Don't follow any sports
Don't give a crap for fashion
Perhaps by following these principles we can finally think and, I'm not just talking about Colombia, but the whole world Mike.
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