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Article: "Speed.".(photography, various artists, Whitechapel Art Gallery/Photographers' Gallery, London, United Kingdom)
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- Artforum International
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- December 1, 1998
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WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY/PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY, LONDON
"Acceleration is the one constant in our experience of modernity. . . . Speed is not so much a product of our culture as our culture is a product of speed," declares the catalogue for the joint show recently mounted by the Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Photographers' Gallery, London, aptly entitled "Speed." Sharing both critical theory's penchant for disrupting conventional models of cause and effect and its enthusiasm for interdisciplinarity, this curatorial experiment draws together a diverse array of ideas and things: designed objects, wall-mounted texts and ephemera, works of art and photography, films ...