Installation with protocols, desk, leather armchair, cloth, eye bolt, folding chair, chain, lock

After a Court in New York had allowed a lawsuit of the news agency “Associated Press“, the Pentagon released about 8000 protocol pages in the beginning of March 2006. These protocols are matter of records of the first hearings from a military tribunal, which decided whether the detainees should be held furthermore in Guantanamo, transferred back to their home countries or be released. The protocols were published on the Internet by the United States Department of Defense.

Publishing secret documents on the Internet and therefore presenting them to the public caused my interest. I printed all published protocols, that were made over a period of four years (Round 1), and integrated them in an installation which reflects a situation of an interrogation similar to the one at Guantanamo. The protocols lie on a desk and can be read by the visitors.

Exhibition view: Award Show 2008 (Grants Kanton Zurich) F+F, Zürich