One World, Zero Tolerance

A friend of mine that currently attends MICA (Maryland Institute College of Arts) told me that I must must must must must go to MoMA PS1 to see its exhibits, any exhibits. This assignment gave me an excuse to go there.

I suggested to our group to use this place as our third arts place, but we didn’t choose an exhibit to see until we got there. We wanted to go see a couple of exhibits and decide based on how we liked it. We ended up seeing three exhibits: Retrospective, Zero Tolerance, and The Flat Side of the Knife. Of the three, the most powerful one and the most influential one that we thought was Zero Tolerance.

Zero Tolerance depicts the political turmoil and demonstrations for rights by citizens of different countries from the 1960s all the way to present time. The exhibit included posters by John Lennon and Yoko Ono against the Vietnam War, demonstration at a church in Mosco by Pussy Riot against Vladmir Putin, attempting to breathe air into Tiananmen Square to revive the dead, crashing a car into a tree in St. Petersburg, rap video by a group of Turks, etc. All these strive to show the ill in our society, and the “zero tolerance” citizens have for the world.

The exhibit is presented from October through till March 2015. Even at present many other political tensions in the world could be incorporated. Look at the Umbrella Revolution/Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong, the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, People’s Climate March in New York. Maybe some of the worlds leaders should take a journey to Long Island City and reflect on themselves.