At the Tempelhof Airport of Berlin is running "The World Is Not Fair - The Great World's Fair 2012", a very huge installation based exhibition, with different building and experiences to be part of.
One of this is very simple, is “The Syrian protesters are recording their own deaths.”
It's very SIMPLE and TRAGIC at the same time... you run in a corridor made with the running videoclip frames of a men
filming his own death. And on the shooting frame on the floor they put a metal step, so you can get impressed by a self-made noise. After the shoot you'll not be able to see the man, but just the sky from a personal death perspective.
from the original website: http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
Rabih Mroué: Double Shooting
“The Syrian protesters are recording their own deaths.”
I found myself on the Internet navigating from one site to another, searching for facts that could tell me more about death in Syria. I found a lot of material, but one group of videos grabbed me in particular. These videos show the moment of eye contact between sniper and cameraman, when the gun’s line of sight and the camera’s lens meet: Double Shooting. We see and hear the sniper shooting, and through the movement of the mobile phone we witness the cameraman fall to the ground.
This installation is a re-enactment of a video clip from the ongoing Syrian revolution. It is a tunnel of 45 meters long, consists of 72 frames that make a stop motion sequence, calculated as 4 frames per second. In order to see the video in real time, we should try to time our run from the entrance of the installation to the exit in 18 seconds.
On the other side there will be a text spread on each board. It reflects on the act of photographic documentation in Syria as ›Now and Here‹ and its relationship with death, and how we perceive these photos ›Now but There‹…
Rabih Mroué lives in Beirut. He is an actor, director, and playwright, and a Contributing Editor in the Lebanese quarterly "Kalamon" and the theatre journal "TDR", based in New York. He is one of the founders and executive board of Beirut Art Center association (BAC). His works include: The Inhabitants of images (2008), Who’s Afraid of Representation (2005) and others.
Special thanks to Berlin Explorer (http://www.berlino-explorer.com)
