Comments on: Justice http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/05/justice/ Sat, 18 May 2013 06:15:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Glen Helfand http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/05/justice/comment-page-1/#comment-107695 Glen Helfand Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:37:36 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=29047#comment-107695 Amy- Great points, the idea about how dialogues are controlled in this setting, and the gravity of decisions. The case I’m on is a monetary decision only, nudging it further into a conceptual realm of ‘value’.

]]> By: Amy Trachtenberg http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/05/justice/comment-page-1/#comment-107694 Amy Trachtenberg Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:43:43 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=29047#comment-107694 Glen, I was also called to jury service last week but had to postpone. What if we had been placed on the same trial and were not allowed to discuss it during? This happened to me about 10 yrs ago when I ended up serving with Steve Lambert and we wanted to talk about it at the breaks, at lunch, at the end of the day. We were enthralled by the performance of the expert witnesses, the aging, glamorous and sassy judge and the plaintiff’s husband usually too busy working to show up for his wife’s trial though suing MUNI for his loss of consortium due to her supposed injury. But we all showed up, including elderly, infirm, poor people who felt it was both their duty and their right. A theater of interpretation and a spasmodic landscape of diametrically opposing facts. To be on the jury with someone I’d want to talk openly with tested boundaries of self restraint and flagrant resistance to rules.

As a sidebar to this, I recently watched Lumet’s Twelve Angry Men and was sucked right into the hothouse effect of determining the rest of someone else’s life through a lens of class and racism via several hours of deliberation taking place around one table in one room. Fantastic.

]]> By: Glen Helfand http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/05/justice/comment-page-1/#comment-107683 Glen Helfand Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:01:43 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=29047#comment-107683 Rudolf– Thanks for the response. Apologies for the misleading image and tag– I am intrigued by the courtroom-likeness of the American Room, and as I was considering something for an image it makes sense. What happens in those spaces is not quite how it initially appears (and they are indeed, I’m seeing the courtroom as a participatory place). I think I may have been going out on a wing!

]]> By: Rudolf Frieling http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/05/justice/comment-page-1/#comment-107681 Rudolf Frieling Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:42:20 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=29047#comment-107681 Glen, I had hoped I would read about the link between jury duty and The American Room as suggested by the opening pic. Maybe in a second post? But what really prompted me to write back is that I’m clueless with regard to the strange tagging. Your choices? Or editorial?

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