{"id":2899,"date":"2009-02-18T15:11:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T15:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2009-02-18T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T15:11:21","slug":"2009-2-18-more-emily-jacir-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2899","title":{"rendered":"More Emily Jacir"},"content":{"rendered":"
The New York Times runs a review<\/a> of Emily Jacir’s show at the Guggenheim (I’ve already discussed their interview<\/a> with her earlier).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dry, cerebral, fragmentary and stylistically derivative, the exhibition is less affecting and less informative than any number of newspaper and magazine articles about the Palestinian situation you might have read over the last 40 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I went to the show’s opening and thought it was very affecting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyway, despite the NYT reviewer’s claims that his problem is with the formal execution of the show–not with its political content–he spends a good deal of time questioning that content.<\/p>\n

If one were to judge from Ms. Jacir\u2019s work, Mr. Zuaiter was innocent of any connection to the Munich murders, eliminated rather because he was an eloquent spokesman for the Palestinian cause.<\/p>\n

In the wall text that introduces the exhibition, however, there is a curious qualification. It says that Mr. Zuaiter was never \u201cconclusively\u201d linked to the Olympics murders. This introduces the shadow of a doubt. Is there a chance that he was somehow involved? Ms. Jacir\u2019s exhibition can thus be viewed as a brief for the defense, but this is problematic. How can we know if the artist is manipulating her material, leaving out anything that might be suspicious or incriminating?\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the wiki page<\/a> on Zuaiter. It seems clear to me that while the Mossad suspected him of being linked to the Munich attacks, no evidence has been made public to prove this–and shouldn’t the burden of proof be on them?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times runs a review<\/a> of Emily Jacir’s show at the Guggenheim (I’ve already discussed their interview<\/a> with her earlier).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dry, cerebral, fragmentary and stylistically derivative, the exhibition is less affecting and less informative than any number of newspaper and magazine articles about the Palestinian situation you might have read over the last 40 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I went to the show’s opening and thought it was very affecting.\u00a0
\nAnyway, despite the NYT reviewer’s claims that his problem is with the formal execution of the show–not with its political content–he spends a good deal of time questioning that content.<\/p>\n

If one were to judge from Ms. Jacir\u2019s work, Mr. Zuaiter was innocent of any connection to the Munich murders, eliminated rather because he was an eloquent spokesman for the Palestinian cause.
\nIn the wall text that introduces the exhibition, however, there is a curious qualification. It says that Mr. Zuaiter was never \u201cconclusively\u201d linked to the Olympics murders. This introduces the shadow of a doubt. Is there a chance that he was somehow involved? Ms. Jacir\u2019s exhibition can thus be viewed as a brief for the defense, but this is problematic. How can we know if the artist is manipulating her material, leaving out anything that might be suspicious or incriminating?\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the wiki page<\/a> on Zuaiter. It seems clear to me that while the Mossad suspected him of being linked to the Munich attacks, no evidence has been made public to prove this–and shouldn’t the burden of proof be on them?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}