Rifky, Sarah, author.

The Going Insurrection.

[Place of publication not identified] : Hatje Cantz, 2012.

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dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts ; 86

"-What should I do? We anticipated atrocities, mayhem, chaos. All there was, was a strange stillness lingering over violence from the night before. It doesn't matter where or when this was. There were, there are, many nights. The calmness was sincere, not eerie as one might imagine. Blood shed in peace, startles. It felt welcoming, enough to want to be there, amid anyone. We walked among people, tents, clusters of conversations, we gave out newspapers, shared news and oranges we had bought. Nine floors up, in a balcony, overlooking freedom, journalists propped their cameras for an uninterrupted airing of a live aerial view of protesters. On television, it looked like an image forever. It was a crime to switch it off, unless you became a part of the image. In the kitchen, filmmakers and photographers made soup in large pots and took turns checking on the brewing vegetables (inside) and adjusting viewfinders (outside). Nine stories down, a man paced back and forth, reading the newspaper through a megaphone. Standing next to him was liberating. Everything felt slow, very different from real time. Days passed, people walking, encircling The Situation, deliberating the scenography, living on set. A situation staging itself. Protestors seemed to take cues from photographs: they stood frozen like figures holding up placards of statements, jokes, self-fashioned illustrations. They held their poses for one another, to take pictures, like pictures, of pictures, for pictures. A man on a lamppost would not descend until the president abdicated. He is still there, it is a performance still, an image endlessly reproduced. I have thought, many times, how to picture it. If I write it, have you seen it? I saw it, and saw it a hundred times again, on-screen. My memory is confused between lived and mediated experience..."-- provided by distributor.

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Art and literature.
Violence.
Art et littérature.
violence.

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