I'm quite interested in formalist/descrpitive/creative writing (I don't really know what to call it becasue it's not really one or the other, just a bit of writing), so I decided to write a very formal bit of writing on a video of the pulling down of Saddam Hussein's statue. I remember being really young when this happened, and was attending peace marches with my family at the time, so I kind of had a bit of a clue what was going on - from a child's perspective.
It was just quite a poignant image that stuck in my mind so I decided this was the best thing to focus on to make a sound work in response to war.
I repeated words or phrases which were especially prominent in the video like the arm out stretched as it fell
I thought as well that by making words like 'material' or 'object' or 'statue' understandable more than others, it adds a bit of ambiguity in the context of an art piece - is this talking about an artwork, the materiality of an artwork, statues/objects? nope
but more than anything, the end result is written and edited in such a way to avoid narrative - a purposeful lack of it!
WAR PIECE
(from before we all had the chat about approaching this in the LICA foyer)
