Kakofonie 003
I instantly pined to go to Kakofonie 003 for one reason only. Richard Mosse. I’m obsessed. Born in Dublin, raised in Kilkenny and now based in New York, he studied at Goldsmiths and Yale. His work could almost be photojournalism except that it's just too conceptual to not be art. The sites he documents are astonishingly epic and exciting. Think the Congo, abandoned palaces in Iraq, sunken submarines, Thailand, Gaza. Mosse seeks challenges. His work, which deals heavily with conflict, culture, human interest and a dialogue about language and meaning, is instantly intriguing. It’s also very macho but I don’t know if he can help that. He's like an Action Man come to life and given a cheeky Irish accent. Shadid, screening at Block T, is a terrorist video. ‘Possibly the only such video ever made by non-Palestinian producers.’ Oh baby.
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