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GAK BREMEN, GESELLSCHAFT FUER AKTUELL KUNST 2003/2004 Fall

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GAK - INSTALLATION VIEWS

Iraq dialogs installed in PUBLIC SPACE

gak 2 - INDIVIDUAL WORKS - reading frantz fanon... arabic.. (bush lingo drawings)

gak 3 -INDIVIDUAL WORKS - news papers...

gak 4 -INDIVIDUAL WORKS - seminars/lectures

about this exhibition

texts: (German) Verfeinerte Informationen - Versteinerte Politik / (English) Refined Information and Petrified Politics, 2003

Interviews with Iraqi Dialog Partners: Finjan Binan and Ahmet Baban

New York Times, 10/3/03, Muslims in European Schools

Ink drawing on paper, 2003

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Seminar/Lectures ... click here to see these works

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AFGHAN DIALOG, LIVE, LIVE, LIVE …EVIL, 2002/03
50 x 73 inches / 127 x 185 cm
translation: What is the difference between human beings and animals for you? You spend more on dogs and
cats than here on human beings.
This game is just for a while. It is not forever. This is going to be over now very soon. Just wait, compare what we
lose for what. You lose everything. we lose nothing because we have nothing.

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AFGHAN DIALOG, NEXT TARGET, 2002
26.5 X 63 inches
translation: Attacking Muslim countries, America
should respect at least American opposition.

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more about these works: war on terror

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IRAQ DIALOG WITH AHMET BABAN, WAR IN LIVING, INFORMATION OR PROPAGANDA , Bremen 2003
Fired ceramic tiles, certificate of authenticity

translation: can killing and deportation of the innocent be the way for the abolishion of dictatorship or to build another dicatorship?

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IRAQ DIALOG WITH BINAN FINJAN, WAR IN IRAQ, MILITARY ACTION, LIVE …, Bremen 2003
Fired ceramic tiles, certificate of authenticity. - 180 cm x 250 cm
Übersetzung Amer Abbas: Saddam was constantly humiliating Iraqi people. For Iraqis it is a relief to see him fall.

Binan Finjan is living in Bremen and is a business men. I arrived to Germany in 1992 under adventurous condition. He belongs to the Christian minority of the Mandaeer. Mem

ebers of his family have been victimized by the Saddam Hussein regime. An oncle was killed because of political resistance.

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Ein Gespräch mit Binan Finjan / A converstation with Binan Finjan, 2003 - 45 min

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION

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New York Times, 8/1/02 Experts warn of High Risk for American Invasion of Iraq
Ink drawing on velum, 2002
New York Times, 8/7/022 Bush hears Option Including Baghdad Strikes
Ink drawing on velum, 2002
New York Times, 8/6/02 UN and Congress Rebuff Iraq’s Inspection Invitation
Ink drawing on velum, 2002
New York Times, 8/7/02 American Reaffirms UN Role in Iraq Weapons Inspection
Ink drawing on velum, 2002
New York Times, 8/2/02 Iraqis Reversing Cours, Ask to Meet U.N. Arms Inspectors
Ink drawing on velum, 2002