I think torture has always been with us; there are signs dating well back
into prehistory, and there have been books written, for example, about the
Assyrian murals and what they depict. The Central American ball-games
weren't innocent either of course. I think it was Lorenz who postulated
th
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The other day I was in a wake. It was a man almost in my age,
Universindo Rodriguez. He died of a bone cancer and in his wake were
almost twothousand persons. He has belonged as young to an anarchist
group. He was in jail, severely tortured and later released. When he
tried to come back to Uruguay
Hi,
After posting some visual materials I think my initial "introduction to the
work" is done. I am happy to take it on from there and to form a dialogue
Interesting question below from Alan about the nature of video as a catalyst
for memory, pain and lament and later I would like to expa
Hi - some questions occasioned by what I've been reading here, and also
thinking about torture, living through torture. Lamentation seems to imply
an other, often disappeared or disappearing, that one mourns for, after,
or almost within; torture applies to the self to the depths that there is
Monika Weiss--Sustenazo: Part II
Antiphonal Structures
Language is a sovereign system that signifies and coincides with denotation. It
maintains itself in relation to what it describes but at the same time
withdraws from it into “pure” language. In my work lament questions language.
An exp
