9-Liner (v)

A 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.

2 Channel HD-Video and Single-Channel custom software text reader.

Categories

Gallery, Installation, Museum, Video

News

TheArtFund RUSI: Remembrance in a Modern Society - 10.03.10, Krieg und Medizin Exhibition Open - 04.04.09, Bearing witness: the role of war artists in the 21st century - 26.10.09, David Cotterrell : Kino Eye, Politics of Amnesia II - 17.05.15

Bibliography

Art in the Danger Zone, War and Medicine, Krieg und Medizin, Bloody Reality, War and Art : A Visual History of Modern Conflict, A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond

Exhibitions

War and Medicine, Krieg und Medizin, War and Medicine (Canada), Politics of Amnesia II

Awards

War & Medicine : War Artist Commission

Talks

Culture in a Time of Conflict (a), David Cotterrell in Conversation, Army medics on the front-line (v), David Cotterrell on Afghanistan (v), It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (v), Bearing witness: the role of war artists in the 21st century, David Cotterrell War and Medicine, BBC Radio 4 Today : Injury and Conflict (a), David Cotterrell Film Screening, BBC Radio 4 : The Two Minute Silence (a), RUSI : Subjective Views (a), TED : How I Almost Lost My Faith in Photography (v)

Downloads

War and Medicine : Artists Diary, RSA Lecture : Culture in a Time of Conflict, TimeOut : Military Responses, RSA Journal : Art and Conflict, War and Medicine : Interview Transcript, Guardian G2 : Bloody Reality, Guardian G2 : War & Medicine Review, David Cotterrell : Kino Eye

Reviews

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, Lancet : The complexity of medicine and war, Guardian : War and Medicine, London, British Medical Journal: War: what is it good for?, The Big Issue : Tools of Combat, bbc.co.uk : The uneasy link between war and medicine, Saturday Review : War and Medicine, creativerevew.co.uk : Saving lives and losing lives, frieze.com : War and Medicine, fugitiveink : Salutary truth: 'War and Medicine' at the Wellcome Collection, legion-magazine.co.uk : Artist explores war and medicine, londonist.com : War + Medicine, mod.uk : War and medicine on the front line, museums and heritage live.com : War artists trip to Afghanistan, londonblog.com : War, what is it good for?, telegraph.co.uk : ..staggering history of suffering, Art Monthly : War and Medicine, BBC Radio 4 : Start the Week (a), Yorkshire Post : The Silence That Still Resonates

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