distant suffering XIII - II i.d. of shared distortion
April 5 2010 – September 2017 Hans Overvliet | www.hansovervliet.com
On the 5th of April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad - including two Reuters news staff. The same day I made a typoscript of the communication between the soldiers and the airmen involved. Roger received target fifteen. K.
See all those people standing down there?
Inspired by the project / exhibition Les Refugiés | Cultuurcentrum Bugge | 27/04/’17 – 27/05/’17, in Stay firm. And open court which I was involved, I assembled the typoscript withthe images fromyard. the web I collected for Les Refugiés [ wich was curated by my friend Jan Verhaeghe ] for his project / exhibition Jacky X 10 + 1.
Yeah roger. Jan Verhaeghe is a conceptual artist and exhibition maker. He investigates the estimate relationshipsthere between artist, theabout artwork twenty and the viewer in the ever chanI just is the probably of them. ging social context, in which the artist has a spearhead function, and where he as an artist works out the following concepts: yeah. Oh'image' yeah. perception: the possibilities / There’s difficulties,one, (self) censorship, – (de)formation, authenticity / multiplicability, truth / sham / forgery, art (&) politics and all this within art historical reference frameworks. Yeah roger. He is Bushmasters element, Quite rhymeful with my art concept. copy on the One-Six. The edition of distant suffering XIII – II | i.d. of shared distortion comes in a total of three copies: That’s yeah. two for the project / exhibition Jacky X 10 a + 1weapon, and one as an A.P. Wednesday, 06 September 2017 Hans Overvliet| www.hansovervliet.com
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Hotel Two-Six; Crazy Horse One-Eight. Copy the One-Six, Bushmaster Six-Romeo. Roger. Fucking prick. Hotel Two-Six; this is Crazy Horse One-Eight. Have individuals with weapons. He’s got a weapon too. Hotel Two-Six, Crazy Horse One-Eight Have five to six individuals with AK47s. Request permission to engage. Roger that. Uh, we don’t have no personnel east of our position.
Hotel Two-Six; Crazy Horse One-Eight. Copy the One-Six, Bushmaster Six-Romeo. Roger. Fucking prick. Hotel Two-Six; this is Crazy Horse One-Eight. Have individuals with weapons. He’s got a weapon too. Hotel Two-Six, Crazy Horse One-Eight Have five to six individuals with AK47s. Request permission to engage. Roger that. Uh, we don’t have no personnel east of our position.
Hotel Two-Six; have eyes on individual with RPG. Getting ready to fire. We won’t . . . Yeah, we got a guy shooting - - and now he’s behind the building. God damn it. Uh, negative, he was. uh right in front of the Brad. Uh. ‘bout there, one o’clock. Haven’t seen anything since then. Just fuckin’, once you get on ‘em just open ‘em up. All right. I see your element, eh, got about four Humvees, uh, out along . . . You’re clear. All right, firing.
Let me know when you ‘ve got them. Lets shoot. Light ‘em all up. Come on, fire! Keep shoot’n, keep shoot’n . Keep shoot’n. Keep shoot’n. Hotel . . . Bushmaster Two -Six, Bushmaster Two-Six, we need to move, time now! All right, we’ve just engaged all eight individuals. Yeah, we see two birds and we’re still firing. Roger. I got ‘em. Two-Six, this is Two-Six, we’re mobile.
Oops, I’m sorry, what was going on? God damn it, Kyle. All right, hahaha, I hit them. Al right, you’re clear. All right, I’m just trying to find targets again. Bushmaster Tow-Six; this is Bushmaster Two-Six. Got a bunch of bodies lying there. All right, we’ve got about, uh, eight individuals. Yeah, we got one guy crawling around down there, but, eh, you know, eh, we got definitely got something.
We’re shooting some more. Roger. Hey, you shoot, I’ll talk. Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards. Nice. Nice. Good shootin’. Thank you.
On the 5th of April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad - including two Reuters news staff. The July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrikes were a series of air-to-ground attacks conducted by a team of two US AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the Iraq War. Working for Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. In the van was Saleh Mutashar and his two children Sajad and Doah This is the typoscript of that video.
Roger received target fifteen. K. See all those people standing down there? Stay firm. And open the court yard. Yeah roger. I just estimate there is probably about twenty of them. There’s one, yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah roger. He is Bushmasters element, copy on the One-Six. That’s a weapon, yeah. Hotel Two-Six; Crazy Horse One-Eight. Copy the One-Six, Bushmaster Six-Romeo. Roger. Fucking prick. Hotel Two-Six; this is Crazy Horse One-Eight. Have individuals with weapons. He’s got a weapon too. Hotel Two-Six, Crazy Horse One-Eight Have five to six individuals with AK47s. Request permission to engage. Roger that. Uh, we don’t have no personnel east of our position. So, uh, you are free to engage. Over. All right, we’ll be engaging. Roger go ahead. I’m gonna . . . . I can’t get ‘em now because they’re behind that building. Um, hey Bushmaster element . . . He’s got an RPG. All right, we’ve got a guy with an RPG. I’m gonna fire. Okay. No hold on. Let’s come around. Behind buildings right now from our point of view. . . . Okay, we’re gonna come around. Hotel Two-Six; have eyes on individual with RPG. Getting ready to fire. We won’t . . . Yeah, we got a guy shooting - - and now he’s behind the building. God damn it. Uh, negative, he was. uh right in front of the Brad. Uh. ‘bout there, one o’clock. Haven’t seen anything since then. Just fuckin’, once you get on ‘em just open ‘em up. All right. I see your element, eh, got about four Humvees, uh, out along . . . You’re clear. All right, firing. Let me know when you ‘ve got them. Let’s shoot. Light ‘em all up. Come on, fire! Keep shoot’n, keep shoot’n.
Keep shoot’n. Keep shoot’n. Hotel . . . Bushmaster Two -Six, Bushmaster Two-Six, we need to move, time now! All right, we’ve just engaged all eight individuals. Yeah, we see two birds and we’re still firing. Roger. I got ‘em. Two-Six, this is Two-Six, we’re mobile. Oops, I’m sorry, what was going on? God damn it, Kyle. All right, hahaha, I hit them. Al right, you’re clear. All right, I’m just trying to find targets again. Bushmaster Tow-Six; this is Bushmaster Two-Six. Got a bunch of bodies lying there. All right, we’ve got about, uh, eight individuals. Yeah, we got one guy crawling around down there, but, eh, you know, eh, we got definitely got something. We’re shooting some more. Roger. Hey, you shoot, I’ll talk. Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards. Nice. Nice. Good shootin’. Thank you.
distant suffering XIII - II i.d. of shared distortion
April 5 2010 – September 2017 Hans Overvliet | www.hansovervliet.com