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| Homeland Insecurity | |
The true catastrophe is that we are living under a permanent threat of catastrophe... --Slovoj Zizek In 2003 I made a series entitled Homeland Insecurity, a play on "Homeland Security," the department created by the Bush Administration in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As the Department of Homeland Security changed terror alert levels from yellow to orange to red and back again, I began thinking about how people might respond both psychologically and physiologically to a climate of fear. I staged scenarios for the camera in various New York City locations (using friends and family as actors), depicting how behavior might break down or become erratic and how bodily dysfunction would belie internalized fear, stress, and paranoia. Please disable pop-up blocker for proper viewing. |
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