Contemporary Projects 11: Hard Targets-Masculinity and Sport November 13, 2008

Six artists in this exhibit worked to revise the time-honored archetype of the male athlete. They offer opposing views of masculinity and sport, and of the entire theatre of athletic play. Each examines the way masculinity is characterized and performed in a sporting context, and each suggests the existence of complex systems of desire and identification that accompany the way we view and consume athletes and sporting events.