Whitney Biennial, off the top of my notes

I went to the Whitney Biennial today. I plan on writing a longer review, but I thought I would draw up a list of words and phrases out of my notebook to maybe give the tenor of what's up. Like most Biennials, it was a mixed bag of work. Very few stand-outs for me, but the mood was very strong -- like a lo-fi Indie rock album. If it's supposed to be a portrait of the artworld moment, then the curators did a good job. Here's my list :

found objects
involuntary medium
slap-dash
rickety
DIY
boring games
shifting perspective
transferrence
one thing becomes another
antiquated realism
nostalgia
consumer expression
mixed media, mixed message
optimism
rebuilding
creating a 3-D experience
unfinished space
seduce, reuse, recycle
disappeared past
fragility
juxtaposition
permeable
escaping the museum
jerry saltz is excited
publicly private
multiplying perspectives
personal response to mass media
at an intersection
life-sized collage
faux decadence
nature is gone
if artists are questioning art, curators aren't