"9 Scripts from a Nation at War" Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
This event has ended.
"9 Scripts from a Nation at War" (2007), a 10-channel video installation recently acquired by MoMA, marks the first work for which artists Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, and David Thorne have collaborated. The work responds to knowledge production and communication in the context of the Iraq war since the initial invasion by U.S. military forces in March 2003. The 10 videos comprising the large-scale, spatial installation cast inquiry into the position of the individual amidst roles constructed by war. Each video stages the speaking of a script from the following perspectives: citizen, blogger, correspondent, veteran, student, actor, interviewer, lawyer, detainee, and source. The scripts are enacted by both actors and non-actors, some speaking their own words, some reciting the words of others. Displayed as projections and seated viewing stations in a circuitous, non-narrative structure, the performative videos create a charged environment questioning the implications of war on individual and collective subjectivity.
[Image: Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, David Thorne "9 Scripts from a Nation at War" (2007) Ten-channel video installation (color, sound). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds. © 2011 the artists. Photograph by Scott Groller.]
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Schedule
from January 25, 2012 to August 06, 2012
Artist(s)
Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, David Thorne