“MyWar – Identity and Appropriation under War Condition”
A voice is retelling a TV-report about a failed and half way interrupted suicide attack of a Palestinian boy on an Israelian checkpoint, or, is the voice renarrating an imagination  about a hybridisation of the suicide bomber with a military robot and its surrounding security architecture into an undecodable, computer animated being?

a participative dis/play

huwwara _ anybody, looking will be set up as an installation consisting of different sets, media and viewing formats (audio piece, single screen computer-animation, double-screen interactive video). The installation is based on a re-enactment of a Youtube archived footage, a report of the Israelian TV Channel 2. It enables the observer – “the third position”, an irritating immersion in his/her ways of looking at and perceiving of extremely overcoded protagonists such as suicide bombers and high-tech military actors aside from a doubled gaze towards an apparently inconspicuous, neutral silhouette of a Palestinian city at night. The activated display of the restaged TV scene provides thus access to a “narrative of strangeness”, an opaque extension to the existing demonising imagery applied from both sides of the political antagonists in the Middle East as well as an suspension of superhero figurations out of adolescent role model techniques.

Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, 29.1.-31.1 (preview)
plugin Basel, 4.3.10, live -mix
FACT Liverpool,  March 12 – May 23, opening: march 11
Edith Russ Haus Oldenburg, June 11- Aug 29, 2010
Shedhalle Zurich, Überblendungen, October 9 – end of December 10
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