What is it about?
In 2008, in response to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Jacob Pinholster and I created a theatrical installation using media and spatial design to put a normally passive audience through an experience roughly mimicking the interrogation process, and to experience how a person can be convinced of something that is not supported by fact. This is my account of that process and the piece itself.
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Why is it important?
How can a piece of theatrical art bring an audience into a deeper understanding of acts of coercion and violence committed in their name by a government and its agencies?
Perspectives
It's critical that artists thoughtfully examine their own works and processes, and find multiple ways of sharing that work. Since our installation never received a formal "review," I chose to write about it myself as one of the collaborating artists, disseminating what we discovered.
Mr Jeff McMahon
Arizona State University Charles Trumbull Hayden Library
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This page is a summary of: Rehearsed and Coerced: Creating Counter Indications, TDR/The Drama Review, June 2011, The MIT Press,
DOI: 10.1162/dram_a_00069.
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