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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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