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WAR ET AL. : APPROPRIATE WAR (series info)

A news paper, a book, and a video

"There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization." -Werner Herzog, Minnesota declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema, 1999. wernerherzog.com

Appropriate War is a series of tools that tackle complacency and passivity in our society. Part artistic expression and part individual protest, I have appropriated and reconfigured contemporary mainstream and independent media in an attempt to discover a new fantastical and morbid truth. These tools operate by revealing themselves to the public in unexpected places: on a train, in a bus station, or online. This naked and instantaneous form of awareness is the first step towards behavioral change.

In this series:
APPROPRIATE WAR (series info)
APPROPRIATE WAR : Good Morning Baghdad
APPROPRIATE WAR : Vonnegut's TiVo
APPROPRIATE WAR : A Boy's Game
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