In a war someone has to die
My new art projekt is called "In a war someone has to die".
A couple of years ago I happened to zap by a TV program, in which a journalist was interviewing a professional African soldier. To the soldiers great disappointment he was out of work at the moment – because there was no war in his region.
The interviewer asked the soldier if he was afraid of dying, and the soldier said: “No I am not afraid of dying. Are you afraid of dying?” The interviewer answered: “Yes I am afraid of dying”. Then the soldier said, without any sentimentality: “In a war someone has to die”.
This little dialogue, and the words “In a war someone has to die”, returned back to me over and over again. Of course I knew that in wars people die, but suddenly I saw the essence and the reality of it very clearly.
These words are the main element in the art project. I use this sentence – these harsh words – in a feminine expression, as handkerchiefs and embroidery are.
Be a part of this art projekt:
I am going to find women from all over the world. Many women from each country.
I would like to invite you to embroider/sew the text "In a war someone has to die" on a handkerchief. The text has to be in your own language. You may supplement with a symbol ore something else if you want to.
The handkerchiefs (hopefully 200-300 pieces) will eventually be sewn together into a great wall blanket. (see the model foto below) One universal voice.
A commentary on the war and an act af solidarity to all those who must send husbonds, fathers, sons, daughters and sisters into war.
In a war where someone has to die.
Facts:
Please embroider the tekst on a handkerchief;
"In a war someone has to die" in your own language.
Deadline: April 2012
My aim is to exhibit the wall blanket on Charlottenborg Art center, in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2012. Maybe also in an Art-center i other countrys.
Modelfoto, how the expression will be in the end.
Send to:
Hanne Bang, Saettedammen 18, 3400 Hillerod, Denmark.
Remember to send me your name and country - I will make a list beside the wallblanket with name and country on all the participants and for the exhibition catalog.
You can either use one of your own handkerchiefs, or you can write me a email and I will send you one, in an envelope with reply coupon, (costs free for you).
Whether you know how to embroider or not is not essential at all. All kind of stiches and handkerchiefs can be used.
If you have any questions you are more than welcome to write me an e-mail.