Someway, Somehow EXPO Chicago seems to elude me every year. I never quite get to experience it in full. Mostly because no matter how much I think I want toattend,I find it to be a daunting chore. Although others can probably relate, I am speaking for myself when I say that It is a short lived, inconveniently scheduled, and expensive (for some) event to participate in. Based on my past experiences I have found it to be alienating, exhausting, and a great way to de-sensitize oneself to aesthetic experience,thereby neutralizing and containing one’s interest and,dare I say,passion for art. This is achieved through the sheer volume and excess of not only the innumerable art objects but of the overpowering presenceof manufactured social and cultural capital.This year’s virtual rendition of EXPO is different in a way thatisradically boring.
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