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security contractor, Blackwater, was also mentioned as having provided security
against looting and other crimes in both New Orleans and Baghdad. Upon
hearing this Pasha expressed that the Iraqi experience was not that different from
what Americans had faced. The edited video concludes with Pasha stating, “See -
we’re not very different.”
The secondary viewer was left to ponder the heavy implications of the
mutual grievances felt by both parties with no real outlet for their own questions,
comments or concerns. Documentation reveals how this secondary viewing
experience was one sided, whereas the initial presentation was mutually reliant.
While the two men in this video are shown agreeing and rhetorically reflecting on
“why it happens this way,” one can ascertain that the project was often less about
disseminating information as had Deller intended, and more about giving people
the opportunity to share common experiences that they may not otherwise have
the opportunity to express given the lack of interaction many Americans have
with contemporary Iraqi citizens and/or recent veteran of the conflict. Most
poignantly this site shows that the conversation may need to find future outlets in
which to sustain the need or desire amongst the public to further address these
issues in an unbiased and comfortable setting like Deller provided.
At the project’s tenth road site on April 9, 2009, located at Emancipation
Park in Houston, Texas, the crew recorded a number of videos that portrayed
individuals with varying concerns and comments regarding the conflict. One of
the more intriguing videos depicted an interview with a young woman in her mid
20s, caucasian and athletic, whose appearance did not reveal much at first about
Object Description
| Title | Sites of production: An examination of Jeremy Deller's It is what it is: Conversations about Iraq |
| Author | Kopp, Rebecca Nichole |
| Author email | rkopp@usc.edu; rnkopp@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Public Art Studies |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Public Art Studies |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-05 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Holte, Michael Ned |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Jacob, Mary Jane Decter, Joshua |
| Abstract | For little over a decade artistic practice in the United States has become intently “focused upon on the sphere of inter-human relations” (Nicolas Bourriaud). Contemporary theorists have presented a variety of ideas concerning the resurgence of this artistic tendency that emerged half a century ago. Using It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, which was presented across the U.S. and at three major museums in 2009 by British Turner prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, as case study to further delineate this artistic form of expression, this thesis addresses recent theoretical developments within the broader social practice movement. Deller’s project emphasized the complicated nature of these theories in action within the contemporary moment, and testified to its heightened use in the public sphere through shifts higher education and institutional programming. The evaluation of Deller’s piece emphasizes the art-historical importance of this work and more broadly contends with the contemporary conflict between those who debate art’s ability to transform consciousness within the public sphere. |
| Keyword | social practice; Jeremy Deller; Iraq; dialogical practice; public sphere; public art |
| Geographic subject (country) | Iraq; USA |
| Coverage date | 2000/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3881 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Kopp, Rebecca Nichole |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Kopp-4545 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Kopp-4545.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 20 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 15 security contractor, Blackwater, was also mentioned as having provided security against looting and other crimes in both New Orleans and Baghdad. Upon hearing this Pasha expressed that the Iraqi experience was not that different from what Americans had faced. The edited video concludes with Pasha stating, “See - we’re not very different.” The secondary viewer was left to ponder the heavy implications of the mutual grievances felt by both parties with no real outlet for their own questions, comments or concerns. Documentation reveals how this secondary viewing experience was one sided, whereas the initial presentation was mutually reliant. While the two men in this video are shown agreeing and rhetorically reflecting on “why it happens this way,” one can ascertain that the project was often less about disseminating information as had Deller intended, and more about giving people the opportunity to share common experiences that they may not otherwise have the opportunity to express given the lack of interaction many Americans have with contemporary Iraqi citizens and/or recent veteran of the conflict. Most poignantly this site shows that the conversation may need to find future outlets in which to sustain the need or desire amongst the public to further address these issues in an unbiased and comfortable setting like Deller provided. At the project’s tenth road site on April 9, 2009, located at Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas, the crew recorded a number of videos that portrayed individuals with varying concerns and comments regarding the conflict. One of the more intriguing videos depicted an interview with a young woman in her mid 20s, caucasian and athletic, whose appearance did not reveal much at first about |
