Isabella Streffen

Finding many memorials along the Wall to soldiers serving in the current Afghan Wars inspired me to produce The Enlistment, a durational performance piece. The Enlistment is a morally inquisitive work, calling on the audience to examine their consciences in collective responsibility. Artist and audience together perform an act of spoken remembrance in enlisting and memorising the names of the dead. Performed in the ‘wrong’ place, the work becomes a political challenge with a potentially criminal penalty attached.

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