Common Vocabularies
One channel video installation
Death, occupation, abduction, genocide, mass graves, water shortages, no electricity; this is the lexicon for Iraqi children today. The new vocabulary is printed on flash cards to educate the viewer. A seven-year-old Iraqi girl learns how to pronounce the terms in a video tutorial. Colored, child-like scribbles cover the wall, defying order and granting a false sense of innocence to the violent words.
