The Art of War (warning may contain reality)

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http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2007/01/06/artist-bourcart-protests-against-iraq-war/

A place where they would rest in peace and at the same time haunt those who pretend not to know what was going on.




Jean-Christian Bourcart: "Collateral", a series of projections in New York State in 2005. From the artist's website:

I projected photographs of mutilated and dead Iraqis on American houses, supermarkets, churches, and parking lots. I was thinking of this new generation of kids who will be traumatized for life by growing up during wartime. It was a desperate gesture: my personal protest for the lack of interest for the non-american victims. I found the images on the web. Some American soldiers post their own pictures on a website. They would show a cut leg with the caption: “where's da rest of my shit?” Or a blown up head with the caption: “need a hair cut."
I could not help thinking of those images as some kind of restless ghosts that endlessly wander in the intermediate level of the web. I took care of them like a embalmer would; downloading, revamping, printing, rephotographiing, then projecting them as if I was looking for a place where they would rest in peace and at the same time haunt those who pretend not to know what was going on.

[Sabriel]

1. A chilling idea

The artist's right about the need to get the images out there where people are forced to confront them.

There's a reason the Allies marched German townspeople through the concentration camps to see the results of inaction and unquestioning compliance. How are we any better than those townspeople?

If we can't bear to look at these images, how can we expect soldiers to? Or the citizens of Iraq who endure these images daily?

One of my friends disagreed, saying that he didn't want his children to see those pictures. Hey, some of the pictures ARE children!!!!!

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3. I agree with you completely

http://anti-war.us/mission/index.php





Free art

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2. State Britain

http://peteramoore.wordpress.com/



Last night I was lucky enough to see Mark Wallinger talk about his work. He was completely normal something I guess I didn’t expect. His work is highly conceptual. He works in video and installations. He has exhibited worldwide and won the Turner Prize in 2007 with his piece State Britain.I got the feeling that his work was really quite simple and eloquently so. He seemed to use the simplest most effective means to get his point across.



His piece State Britain was a complete replication of Brian Haw’s protest against the Iraq war. Haw had been protesting after the first gulf war. His protest consisted of banners, teddy bears and photos. This protest, under a new law, was deemed illegal and taken away by Police at two in the morning. The law stated that no protest could be carried out within a one kilometre radius of Parliament. Wallinger made a video documenting the removal with Brian still there protesting. Wallinger’s reconstruction took five months gathering copyright to every image and teddy bear that was used. It was installed in Tate Britain which runs through that radius. Wallinger put tape running through Tate Britain marking where the radius ended. Half the installation was put on the illegal side and half on the acceptable side.

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4. "Infinite Justice" (Afghanistan war) by Sendy's in Barcelona, March 2002

http://www.graffiti.org/war/war_6.html

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5. So, Who's War Is It?

http://www.joerebholz.com/SoWhosWarIsIt.html

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