Blame their parents?
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- Mimio0
There's war everywhere.
- noop0
oh
my
god
- brandelec0
*barf
- blackspade0
why doesnt this suprise me
- blackspade0
blame the tv
and the parents that filmed it
- shant0
What is it?
- blackspade0
4 kids acting out a beheading in their lounge, behind another kid on his knees
complete with masks over their heads
- ********0
haha
ah the innocence (read ignorance) of childhood...
- cre2done0
i bet those kids grow up to be well rounded, loving people.
go parenthood!
- BonSeff0
sensationalized
stick your arm out and point your finger. spin 180 degrees
do the hokey pokey
thats where the blame lies
- spongebob0
Next thing you know they'd be beheading hapless little animals.
- ********0
i don't think they really know what they're doing or what's going on.
There's this chick artist/photogpraher who takes pictures of little infants dressed as adults. It's really cool, and makes ya think. She has 'em dressed as office workers and hookers and soldiers and suicide bomber and terrorists and shit.
Anyone heard of her?
- blackspade0
no but that sounds shit hot
keen to check her out if u find a site
- blaw0
yeah, kuz, i'd be interested in seeing that, too.
gotta link?
additional hints to help me find a link?
- ********0
She was in a Dazed n Confused magainze or Face or Flux or something like that months and months ago, maybe a year... i'm gonna rummage round my collection and find out.
- scarabin0
blame humanity and our warlike nature. children imitate what they see.
and blame bush.
- ********0
Got it:
The artist is Laura Ford.
"Ford's work is a satirical portrait of the ridiculous, a manisfestation of the layers of contradiction that surround us everyday. Informed by folklore both past and present, and conscious in its use of inconsistency, the obvious refrain to Ford's new work is that of the crossover between the child and the adult. "At three or four," says Ford "children have no sense of reason and consequence, and yet, in many ways, they are still seen as miniature adults."
The politocal sensibilty of the piece, represented in the parody of the suicide bomber, is implicit but not inescapable. "It started with the paranoia of the outsider who can enter our lives and destroy everything we love" says Ford, "someone outside anarchy." This paranoiac idea has alway been a potent force for inciting fear, but in Fords work, the layers of contradiction make this distinction less tenable, as these individuals are merely children. The result is nothing more than childish naughtiness.
By toying with appearance and reality, Ford is deliberately teasing, aiming to slightly unnerve her audience. Inspired by the folk hero, from Robin Hood to Al Qaeda, Ford implicitly draws on the paradox that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, simultaneously heroic and villainous depneding on ones point of view. In manipulating our discomfort, whether it is over the posthumous defiance of a youthful suicide bomber, or the fact that our own children like to play war: Ford's work is an intoxicating critique of a simplistic view of the world, a reminder of the consequences of such naivety. The result is particularly portentous for the audience. After all, if the distinction between the child and the adult, the terrorist and the freedom fighterm and the villaing and the hero, is unclear, how can we truly know who to accept, who to trust, and who to fear?"- Article from December 2003 Flux Magazine. The exhibtion was on at Beaconsfield until a few weeks ago. I can't find any of the work online tho.
- blaw0
great work on that, kuz.
i'm really intrigued and plan on keeping my eye out for examples of the work you mentioned. If you come across something, be sure to post it here.
thanks again for the effort in finding that article.
- jgrafx0
makes me interested... wait, switch on the stupid pc...!
- jgrafx0
NOT POSSIBLE!
will stay in bed for rest of my life if this seems to be the world we are in...