Editors’ Picks: 9 Art Events to See in New York This Week
The New York debut of Kader Attia’s multimedia contribution to the Biennale de Lyon in 2015, “Reason’s Oxymorons” presents a “video library” of 18 interviews presented in office cubicles. The interviews feature ethnographers, psychiatrists, and theorists discussing topics such as “Genocide” and “Reason and Politics.” The resulting observations reflect on the West’s antiseptic touch in dealing with its current troika of humanitarian dilemmas: immigration, assimilation, and the refugee crisis.