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Repost: Is there anything for art to say about Iraq?

Liam Gillick published this comment on the ICA’s show Memorial to the Iraq War on the Guardian’s art & architecture blog yesterday, I think it’s really interesting:

Is there anything for art to say about Iraq?
There doesn’t seem to be much point in conventional artistic responses to the Iraq conflict – artists need to be much more direct.

Artists have been responding to the war in Iraq since the build-up in 2003. The exhibition opening at the ICA this week is only the most visible manifestation of a whole matrix of works, actions and protests over the last few years. The problem is that many people, artists included, feel increasingly trapped between extreme forces of ideological perversion.

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