Month: February 2014

  • Borders/Embargoes, II and III

    “…behavior could be judged by moral criteria as right or wrong,  but action is judged for neither its motivation nor its aim, only for its performance.” Hannah Arendt, qtd in Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun, Wafaa Bilal and Kari Lydersen  II. To anyone looking through night goggles, the eight figures…

  • Borders/Embargoes, I

      “When you tell a story no one else tells anymore , you say: ‘I invented this, it’s mine.’ But what you’re really doing is remembering…what the memory of your forefathers left in your blood….” Ariel Dorfman, “Myth as Time and Language [in Miguel Angel Asturias’ Men of Maize]” I. In the moonlight what appeared…