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Joshua Neustein, Fanning the Fear, 2002-3

A room sized map of North America in Arabic on the floor; papier maché "stones" made of newspapers, the pink ones from Financial Times, the gray stones Hebrew newspapers, Yediot and Maariv, the white stones from Arabic newspapers El Aharam and El Hayyat are scattered on the map and some 10 ft. off the map to the West. A fan hangs from the ceiling, the blades rotate slowly. Flood lights cast two deliberate revolving fan shadows, one over the map, the other on an adjacent wall with a green halo.

Sounds track : a modem dial up, intervallic by fragments of music, The Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone and the Berber ballad Litima by Mobarek Ababsa and Massiwen.

Installation Size: 25 x 30 x 14 ft. Music Mix: Alexander & Andrea Neustein. Studio assistant: Joshua Kehler

 

 

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