The artists emphasised the provocative quality of their work with a series of events, including a memorable display held in 1963 inside a Düsseldorf furniture shop-front: Polke and Richter even posed themselves as "living sculptures" seated on armchairs.
After pecking his maternal grandmother on the cheek, a gesture as familiar to Americans as it must have been alien to his live, primly seated Chinese audience, the Stanford-educated twenty-six-year-old, in accentless Mandarin, heartily embraced the communist mainland as his longed-for motherland.
In addition, travelers may use the in-flight seat-back entertainment system to build their own playlists, engage in live seat-to-seat chat messaging with other passengers or order food and drinks on-demand.
"Your child will live," the man seated next to me blurted out, channeling an entire world's worth of antipathy to the relentlessly kindergarten-centric.
The rest of the group watch on a live video link, seated in plastic chairs in a half-moon in front of the screen.
Barger, who made his name in Oakland but now lives near Phoenix, was seated behind a table piled with books, accompanied by comrades from the Cave Creek, Arizona, chapter.
Her house was beige stucco, and her daughter, who is two, met her at the front door in pajamas; Gong's husband ushered us to the dining-room table, where her parents and her grandmother, who live with them, were seated.
It will be a particular challenge persuading Labour folk to cast a ballot in the referendum when they live in seats so safe that many have got out of the habit of voting.
And two Marxist revolutions had cost more lives than the seating capacity of Colombo's Kettarama stadium.
But, while it is perfectly legitimate to use the events of September 11 to examine unheroic individual lives, The Mercy Seat rests on a series of artificial moral dilemmas.
