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With Covid-19 ravaging populations and the World trying to come to terms with lockdown reality, it seems an appropriate moment to reactivate this Platform-7 project from 2013 exploring the trauma that follows on from a sudden shocking change in circumstance.
 Observing the Witness by xname...In the society of interaction and entertainment... |  Observing the Witness by xname...where observation becomes passive and not contemplative... |  Observing the Witness by xname...impersonating the role of the witness means operating a transfer... |
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 Observing the Witness by xname...the audience, composed of random passengers... |  Observing the Witness by xname...by observing a 'mask' projected towards a past event... |  Observing the Witness by xname...subliminally experiences the drama of history... |
 Observing the Witness iby xname...yet purged of its violence and ritualised in the present... |  Observing the Witness by xname...Remembering those who died under the bombs, but also those who witnessed it... |  Observing the Witness by xname...this solo performance symbolically re-enacts some of the indelible events that have happened in Poplar.. |
 Observing the Witness iby xname...at the extreme margins of the East End, a recurring target of aerial attacks over two World Wars... |
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Images & assistance: Patricia Carlota and Xiaolan Ping
11th November 2013
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