Bob Paris Our Clean Battlefield comments on the sanitized way that American television news reports on the nation’s wars. TV’s preference to avoid actual human casualties and chart the progress of the war by satellite fly-overs, special effects, and…
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Interview with Blazo Kovacevic
Bertha Husband SUV-Mesh, 2010, Archival digital print on vinyl mesh, 28” x 47 All images in this interview courtesy of the artist Bertha Husband: Before we discuss the works in your exhibition, Blazo, could you say a little bit about…
CLEAN – Looking at War
Chris Revelle On December 21st 1989, a day after the United States invaded Panama, three networks, ABC, CBS, and CNN, all broadcasted the same split-screen images. On one side of the screen, the somber ceremony taking place at Dover Air…
The Yes of the No!
Emma Cocker First – “Steps towards dancing solo” Habitually coupled with the preposition from, dissent is often defined by the thing against which it takes a stand or strives to differ. It is brought into existence by the very terms…
Rewind
When is now? You have only to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives….Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it,…
Dniwer
Ziad Naccache [portfolio_slideshow] In an attempt to look back at the sources that fuel my current work, I used my digital image bank to create a series of loosely curated mind maps. Each map is organized around a theme and/or…
Rewind
Harrison Haynes [portfolio_slideshow] Cases resulting in death were known and soldiers were sometimes successfully treated by being discharged and sent home. Receiving a diagnosis was, however, generally regarded as an insult. -From the the Wikipedia entry on Nostalgia…
Cross Cultural Exchanges in Imperial and Global India
Morgan Campbell Introduction Since the economic liberalization of India in 1991, Chennai, India’s fourth largest city, has sought global city status in order to bring foreign investment into the city’s tertiary sector. Similar to Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune, Chennai has…
swarm (remix)
To rewind is to re-listen and re-engage, and it is also to remove and reduce. In my work with sound, to rewind is the basic process and substance. It is the generator of compositional intent. Arbitrary, improvised…
REWIND
This issue of Drain explores through word and image the concept of rewind in contemporary art and culture. What is it that we do when we rewind? What are the politics of personal and cultural rewind? Can we really see,…