NEW YORK TIMES
2002 - present
I have collected images of
mourners from the New York Times for one year.
Eliciting the bodily gestures out of the news context I made drawings/diagrams
of the mourners’ gestures by tracing them with pencil on vellum.These images
ranged from the aftermath of the World
Center,
terrorist attacks in
funerals of
Palestinians, Chechnyans, to Russians.
Using these drawings as my
“instructions,”
I re-enacted the gestures in front of a video camera without revealing their
original context.I then printed
out my poses of these gestures from stills of the
video recordings and traced them by pencil on vellum. The video of the re-enactments
is titled Lakonikon and the drawings edited and composed in several books are
titled
Black Square.
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picture to see a larger view.
Black Square Drawings
Lab Installation
Lakonikon video
Lakonikon video sample
