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Electronic Prayer Wheel: a meditation on genocide.
Video and sculpture installation presented at ISEA98 in Manchester, England, November 1998.

Media:
254K QTVR panorama of installation
2.7M Quicktime clip of video
read complete text of prayer wheels

Stills:

 
     
Ventilation Holes
You could only see the hands of the people in the tiny ventilation holes.
 

the deliberate destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group by killing members of the group or deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life inimical to survival

     
Daytime
They usually beat us during the daytime, sometimes in the room where we housed and sometimes in the yard.
 

the speed and urgency of radical revolutionary change inevitably results in destructive violence

     
Sand
In their torture they went so far as to make prisoners eat sand. And forced one prisoner to swallow his own feces, another to perform sex acts on a fellow prisoner.
 

the imposition of representative government based on the western democratic model, as it invites the cultivation and manipulation of ethnic divisions, may be the catalyst of genocide

 

 

made in collaboration with Permi Gill