Art: Western Bridge: "Parenthesis" as entangling alliance (Regina Hackett)

(Western Bridge)

Regina Hackett is the former arts critic for the Seattle P-I. This, from her blog Another Bouncing Ball.

In a video at Western Bridge, one child reads from Bill Clinton's welfare reform speech as others unwrap what prove to be empty boxes in a rapid-fire blur. "Work organizes life," observed Clinton, ringing the wrong bell. "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work will set you free") was on a sign over a Nazi death camp.

Even without a Nazi echo in a piping voice, Clinton's plan assumed a fantasy, as DailyKos noted, that "hard work stocking shelves will lead Wal-Mart to pay you more than $7.50 per hour."

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