The whole world blind
The whole world blind
- April 9, 2013
- A sound installation by Roxanne Varzi, anthropology associate professor, is featured by Public Books April 8, 2013
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From Public Books:
The Whole World Blind is a self-contained ethnographic sound performance/ installation/
soundwalk. Blindfolded and wearing headphones, the audience listens to a narrative
loop of a curator describing a slide show of war photography. The unidentified photographs
used in the project are from actual museum shows of war photographs taken from the
Second World War to the present. The Whole World Blind premiered at Soundwalk, an
annual sonic art event held in Long Beach, CA, in October of 2011, and was also exhibited
in Berlin, Germany in December 2011 and at SomArts in San Francisco, CA in 2012 in
conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. [Roxanne
Varzi is a writer, anthropologist, filmmaker, and Associate Professor of Anthropology
and Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author
of Warring Souls: Youth, Media and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran (2006) and director
of Plastic Flowers Never Die (2009)].
To hear the installation and read the accompanying article, please visit http://www.publicbooks.org/artmedia/the-whole-world-blind.
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