9-Liner (v)
Date: 21st November 2008A 25 minute, three channel, video installation exposing the abstraction of experience within conflict.
9-Liner explores the dislocation between the parallel experiences of casualties within theatre. It is a quiet study of a dramatic event: the attempt to bring an injured soldier to the tented entrance of the desert field hospital. The screens show apparently unrelated information. JCHAT - a silent scrolling codified message - runs on a central screen. Our interpretation of it is enabled through its relationship between one of two radically different but equally accurate views of the same event. To the left we see the Watchkeeper - a soldier manning phones and reading computer screens in a crowded office. On the right we view the MERT flight - the journey of the Medical Emergency Response Team in a Chinook helicopter.
Materials:2 Channel HD-Video and Single-Channel custom software text reader.
Categories:
Gallery , Installation , Museum , VideoNews:
TheArtFund RUSI: Remembrance in a Modern Society - 10.03.10, Krieg und Medizin Exhibition Open - 04.04.09, Politics of Amnesia II - 17.05.15, David Cotterrell : Kino Eye, Bearing witness: the role of war artists in the 21st century - 26.10.09Bibliography:
A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond, War and Art : A Visual History of Modern Conflict, Art in the Danger Zone, War and Medicine, Krieg und Medizin, Bloody RealityExhibitions:
War and Medicine, Krieg und Medizin, Politics of Amnesia II, War and Medicine (Canada)Awards:
War & Medicine : War Artist CommissionTalks:
Culture in a Time of Conflict (a), David Cotterrell in Conversation, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (v), Army medics on the front-line (v), TED : How I Almost Lost My Faith in Photography (v), RUSI : Subjective Views (a), David Cotterrell on Afghanistan (v), BBC Radio 4 : The Two Minute Silence (a), David Cotterrell Film Screening, BBC Radio 4 Today : Injury and Conflict (a), David Cotterrell War and Medicine, Bearing witness: the role of war artists in the 21st centuryDownloads:
Guardian G2 : Bloody Reality, War and Medicine : Artists Diary, RSA Lecture : Culture in a Time of Conflict, David Cotterrell : Kino Eye, War and Medicine : Interview Transcript, Guardian G2 : War & Medicine Review, RSA Journal : Art and Conflict, TimeOut : Military ResponsesReviews:
Guardian : War and Medicine, London, ameliasmagazine.com : Theatre, Guardian G2 : Where science and art are encouraged to meet, Wall Street Journal : London art, Health Service Journal : Matter of life or death, The Times : A painful vision of healing in wartime, Student British Medical Journal : War and Medicine, Yorkshire Post : The Silence That Still Resonates, BBC Radio 4 : Start the Week (a), Lancet : The complexity of medicine and war, bbc.co.uk : The uneasy link between war and medicine, British Medical Journal: War: what is it good for?, The Big Issue : Tools of Combat, Art Monthly : War and Medicine, telegraph.co.uk : ..staggering history of suffering, londonblog.com : War, what is it good for?, museums and heritage live.com : War artists trip to Afghanistan, mod.uk : War and medicine on the front line, londonist.com : War + Medicine, legion-magazine.co.uk : Artist explores war and medicine, fugitiveink : Salutary truth: 'War and Medicine' at the Wellcome Collection, frieze.com : War and Medicine, creativerevew.co.uk : Saving lives and losing lives, Saturday Review : War and MedicineSponsors:
