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Concepts 2 - 4
Concept 2: Distanced connection
A red telephone will float at the surface of an open steel barrel filled with red liquid. The sides of the barrel will be covered with pictures of Iraqi civilian casualties. The handset will be coated with red syrup.
When the handset is handled and held close to the ear, a looped recording will feature the voice of a friend or relative over a long distance telephone line:
"I don't know anyone who's gone to Iraq.
I don't know anyone who knows anyone who's gone to Iraq.
I don't know what's happening there at all.
It doesn't really touch my life.
I feel kind of strange about it I guess.
It just doesn't have anything to do with me."
Returning the handset to the phone, one's hand will appear bloodied.
Concept 3: Pinata world
Four uniformed soldiers will guard the perimeter of a square five or so yards across.
The soldiers will face outward on each side, standing at ease, but vigilant.
Inside the guarded area will hang a pinata,
an effigy of the earth perhaps,
or some other representation.
Also inside the perimeter will be a banker or two, business men in suits,
who will be beating the pinata with a baseball bat.
The businessmen will not be blindfolded and will beat the pinata ceaselessly and with determination.
The pinata will be sturdy, but filled with a sponge saturated with a red liquid.
Each blow of the bat will spray blood unto the backs of the military personel standing guard.
Concept 4: Reading names
Recalling the recitation of the names of the US soldiers killed in the war in Iraq,
we will attempt to memorialize the people of Iraq who lost their lives.
We will read through the list of US casualties, punctuating between each name
a rythmic chant of Islamic first names to represent the Iraqis.
A chorus of twelve people will simultaneously chant four names in quick succession:
"Abdallah, Saleh, Sabah, Jabbar."
"Qasem, Ahmad, Ali, Nusseir."
"Yahya, Yaseen, Khaled, Ammar."
"Ziyad, Taha, Nayef, Munther."
"Hameed, Salah, Leith, Wahhab."
"Mushtaq, Riyad, Basem, Mahdi."
"Aziz, Nafe, Omar, Shiya."
"Hussein, Dia, Jalal, Abbas."
Some names repeated, some alternating, some random. One person would voice a base rhythm of
"Mohammad, Mohammad, Mohammad, Mohammad."
The effect will be to have 48 Iraqi names called out for every American name, two thousand times.
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