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'The truth will be known when the last
witness is dead'.
Walid Raad
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featured - March 05
Camouflage Comics
Comics as Discursive Memorial!
 "Camouflage Comics" is a website exploring the history
of the Dirty War, the popular term for the military dictatorship
that governed Argentina between 1976 and 1983, renowned for
"disappearing" tens of thousands of civilians.
The site begins with an encylopaedia entry that outlines
a brief history of the dictatorship, which includes several
strings of blacked-out words. Clicking the censored text reveals
comics produced during this time of political duress and critical
writings about censorship, history, memory and reconstruction.
There is also an accompanying blog, which encourages responses
to the project as well as discussion about censorship.
How
can comics uncover history?
 Humour and irony are ways of communicating that becomes more
important during times of censorship and oppression. “Camouflaging”
here refers to evasive tactics employed to by-pass harsh repression.
Comics then becomes an interesting source for exploring the
past. Also the refreshing dose of individuality found in these
comics add new perspectives to institutional history and thematic
or encyclopaedic sites on the subject.
Camouflage Comics is as a sort of memory-work; a space
for ongoing visual and verbal reflection on the legacies of
the past; "the fragile consensus on the Argentinean military
dictatorship of 1976-1983, the consensus once marked by institutionalized
amnesia".
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former featured nothings
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 HOW
CAN WE OBSERVE THE ROLE UNCERTAINTY PLAY IN HISTORY? Where
do we look? How do we look? According to The Atlas Group
one way to go could be to study photographs of horse-race
finishes ... |
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 THE
BOMB PROJECT is an impressive on-line archive of nuclear-related
links. In addition to images and information resources, government
and non-gevernment sites, it makes accessible declassified files
produced by the nuclear industry itself. |
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 AREA
51 is America's most popular "secret base." This non-place
is not shown on maps and until this day the US Air Force
has refused to acknowledge its existence. The artist and
experimental geographer Trevor Paglen examines this kind
of nowhere-places through the fragmented documents that
restricted landscapes exude. |
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 THE
BIG NOTHING - 36 museums, galleries, science centers and
performing arts groups in Philadelphia, US, is this summer
addressing ideas of nothing, nothingness, and negation! |
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 THE
DESIRE FOR A TOTALIZING VIEW of our world is omnipresent.
But, according to Bruno Latour's webbased work Paris:
Invisible City, such attempts at complete cartographic
indexes on the contrary might hinder vision. |
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 GUANTANAMO;
A LEGAL BLACK HOLE - The Guantanamo prison camp is a territory
beyond the reach of any law and outside the jurisdiction
of any court. |
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 MARTIN
CREED: WORK NO. 79: 'SOME BLU-TACK KNEADED, ROLLED
INTO A BALL, AND DEPRESSED AGAINST A WALL |
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 VACUUM
TO NORWAY! Issak Kiflu has been living in Norway for ten
years, but formally he does not exist. |
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 LOST
CHAIR - by Heidi Rødstøl.
Installation in living room, paint on carpet, variable
dimensions, 2003. |
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 24
YEAR OLD GANGA NEUPANE IS STATELESS Like several million
persons worldwide Ganga Neupane has no citizenship. Being
stateless means not having regular citizenship rights. |
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RAISING
OF STREET LAMP FOR PLACING OF TIRE - On November 27, 1996,
Andreas Slominski upr ooted a lamppost in order to place
an abandoned tire around it. The tire was then later stolen. |
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PENTAGON
HAS STOPPED ALL REFERENCE TO "NUMBER KILLED"
in official releases. The preferred word "casualties"
conceals responsibility and makes moral questions into
non-issues. Moreover the number of casualties is a non-subject
in the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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BUY NOTHING
DAY - exposes the environmental and ethical consequences of
consumerism. ... |
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CREATION
OF ANTIMATTER - CERN have announced that they have passed
through nature's looking glass and created atoms made of antimatter,
or anti-atoms ... |
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REFUGEES
ARE NON-PERSONS - taking photographs that could "humanise
or personalise" asylum seekers has been banned by
former defense minister Peter Reith's office in Australia
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WHAT IS
- WHAT IS NOT? - a story about an encounter and about trying
to differ between fact and non-fact ... |
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THE
RIGHT NOT TO BE BORN - the French parliament has passed
a bill that states that "nobody can claim to have
been harmed simply by being born". the extraordinary
bill was a response to a conviction by the French supreme
court that is said to have established the right not to
be born ... |
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THE 11,202,803
CHILDREN - who were born out of nothing during the 31 days
of Mars 2002 ... |
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NOTHING
I KNOW / SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW - by Graham Gussin
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THE NOTHING
OF TERROR AND RESPONS ON TERROR - the World Trade Center - Afghanistan
and on ... |
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THE
POTENT NOTHING OF CYBERSPACE - this virtual reality in which
we now are taking part ...
NOTHING
AT ROOSEUM, Malmö's Center for Contemporary Art, 3 November
- 16 December, 2001. works by 35 artists exploring notions
of invisibility, imagination and dematerialisation ...
FOR
EVERY TENT; THE OTHER!
- consisting of two Irish green, empty tents, one raised outside
Atelier 35 in Bucharest, and one inside the gallery space
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THE
HYPER-METAPHOR; UK, RAISING TENTS
- containing, among other things, a motorway, ten tents, a
text discussion and an internet diary ...
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suggestions is gratefully accepted!
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