73 Suspect Words

73 Suspect Words

Peggy Ahwesh 
2000, 4 min, b&w, sound

Description

73 Suspect Words is a deceptively simple and ultimately chilling meditation on the power of text. Ahwesh succinctly delves into one person's obsessive irrationality, and his expressions of fear and anger. Based on a spell-check of the Unabomber's manifesto, the work evokes the violence underlying the key words presented.

Sound: Babara Ess, Peggy Ahwesh. Thanks: Keith Sanborn.