Placards - Photo-transfer on Newsprint 2006
Placed alongside the film One Mans Terror is a selection of Placards
mounted into a homemade portable trolley. Members of the Public in
Vasa, Finland were invited to choose from any of the Placards and to
demonstrate in the local Public square, which was documented using
web-cameras located throughout the square. The Placards display images
of The Weathermen, Baader-Meinhof, a child suicide bomber, The Black
Panther Movement Group and a text that reads One Mans Terrorist Is
Another Mans Freedom Fighter but the text has been altered to read One
Mans Terror Is Another Mans Freedom amongst others, documenting members
or individuals that have been implicated in acts of Terrorism.
Incorporating historical imagery of individuals and groups who moved
from protester to terrorist attempts to inform both the Cause and
Effect, adopting a style reminiscent to another political era, that of
Thatcherism, the miners strike, poll tax riots etc. and the Punk ethos
of 'do it yourself'.