Czarny, biały, wstyd. Skandal wokół "Exhibit B" Bretta Baileya
Black, White, Shame. The Scandal about Brett Bailey’s ‘Exhibit B‘

Summary/Abstract: In 2014 the Barbican Centre in London cancelled the performances of BrettBailey’s Exhibit B. The director referred to the phenomenon of ‘humanzoos’, i.e. colonial exhibitions which consisted in imitations of Indianand African villages, where half-naked indigenous people were showcased.Despite the fact Bailey explained that his “intention was to raiseawareness of systems of racism, objectification and dehumanisation”,the work was considered racist and triggered protests of London’s blackcommunity.The article presents both the scandal itself and (by juxtaposing the reactionsof white and black audiences in London, Paris and Wroclaw) theparadoxes related to the project, which can be called ‘a war of shames’.

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