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Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, David Thorne. Still from Citizen: 248 predictions about what I will do when democracy comes.
Video (color, sound). 75 min. From 9 Scripts from a Nation at War. 2007. Ten-channel video installation (color, sound). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds. © 2011 the artists.
9 Scripts from a Nation at War
The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Gallery, second floor, MoMA, NYC
25 January - 6 August 2012
9 Scripts from a Nation at War (2007), a 10-channel video installation recently acquired by MoMA, marks the first work for which artists
Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, and David Thorne have collaborated. The work responds to knowledge
production and communication in the context of the Iraq war since the initial invasion by U.S. military forces in March 2003. The 10
videos comprising the large-scale, spatial installation cast inquiry into the position of the individual amidst roles constructed by war.
Each video stages the speaking of a script from the following perspectives: citizen, blogger, correspondent, veteran, student, actor,
interviewer, lawyer, detainee, and source. The scripts are enacted by both actors and non-actors, some speaking their own words,
some reciting the words of others. Displayed as projections and seated viewing stations in a circuitous, non-narrative structure, the
performative videos create a charged environment questioning the implications of war on individual and collective subjectivity.
Andrea Geyer (German, b. 1971), Sharon Hayes (American, b. 1970), Ashley Hunt (American, b. 1970), Katya Sander (Danish, b.
1970), and David Thorne (American, b. 1960) have worked together in smaller constellations on a range of artworks and projects over
the past seven years. The nature of their collaboration-geographically varied, multi-disciplinary, and constantly shifting-reflects the
ways in which their individual practices overlap. Primarily through video, performance, and installation, the artists have employed
methods from theater, film, linguistics, and journalism. Leading up to the exhibition, a live performance by the artists titled Combatant
Status Review Tribunals pp. 002954-003064: A Public Reading, created in conjunction with 9 Scripts from a Nation at War, took place
in The Agnes Gund Lobby on November 12 and November 13, 2011.
The exhibition is organized by Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator, and Erica Papernik, Assistant Curator, Department of Media and
Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art.