ANGORA 2
April 12-26 2008
Expectations were running high for this year's installment of Angora. But unlike last years' collective aggressiveness and disregard for the market, this new edition proved innocence got lost along the way.
What happened?
Of the few installations addressing the awkward spaces correctly was W&N with a desk drowning in a pool of colorful plastic balls. Here the artists juxtaposed traditional educational systems with entertainment.
Consensus had it that the best installation of show was a product of chance, not art, as exemplified by the retro poster cooled off by industrial fans. 
An intelligent statement by Nicole Rodriguez with an overblown receipt of Einstein's 1939 letter to FDR, (in association with Leo Szilard), justifying the need to experiment with nuclear power before Nazi Germany got a hold of it. Rodríguez successfully trivializes the historical document revealing the contradictions of moral values when life is not black and white but shades of gray.
