An exhibition at the Berkley Art Museum, January - April 1995 / co-curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder. This exhibition was 'co-curated by an artist' allowing certain - normally unavailable- options possible. It also incorporated pop culture imagery (incl. records sleeves, images cut out from catalogs), multi-generational artists/artworks, and a social structuring system. . .
"In a Different Light was developed by imagining groups of objects and images that, through their juxtaposition, might engage in refreshing and provocative dialogue. These online images represent a sampling of the groups. We titled these groups: Void, Self, Drag, Other, Couple, Family, Orgy, World, and Utopia.
Their order in the exhibition suggests a trajectory of experience, moving toward ever greater degrees of sociability. However, the progression of groups in the exhibition is not a chronology, as each group itself contains works from a variety of historical periods. Culture in general, and gay and lesbian culture in particular, reads the past in terms of, and reconfigures it to be meaningful to, the present. In this exhibition we read history both ways, recontextualizing older works in terms of their present resonances and positing contemporary works in terms of their continuity with historical traditions and sensibilities.
The notion of "sensibility" we have employed in this exhibition is somewhat idiosyncratic. The groups are not based on aesthetic sensibility, but rather came together and are identified by social sensibility-- that is, the various conditions of being in the world in relation to other persons (i.e. Self, Couple, Orgy, Utopia). In this manner, the exhibition is structured in a fundamentally sociological, rather than art-historical, manner. Nevertheless, aesthetic sensibilities emerge in interesting ways throughout the exhibition."
text from: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/idl/dlhome.html