Theatre of Operations: The Gulf war 1991-2011, MoMa PS1

You find a little red stain on your white sleeve.
What would you do?

This movie clip of Alfred Hitchcock's Marine
leads me to think about

the meaning of wars abroad.

This exhibition is so well installed that you
can view the wars from almost

all personal perspectives. Refugees, weapon makers,
and ethnography editor, etc.

But still, the dominant media is video.
When I see the corpses on the streets,

I do feel pity for these victims of war.

However, most of those scenes are isolated
from me by the screens.

This means the violence is the same as reality
shows to American residences.

What can art do for the war which is happening?

The same question is stated by Francis Alys.

He made the video piece documents his drawing of

the scenes of the war and blurs the images
he painted back and forth.

This exhibition does serve the function of
reminding us of how big

the disaster a war can causes.

But we almost forget it because of the mass
medias and news

we see around us everyday.

"War as the landscape is needed ",
this quote from the animation

<the genocidal organ> pops up in my mind. 

From 1865, almost 155 years no war on the mainland.

Here, this exhibition wants to tell us: Shall we continue
relocating our

barbarities abroad and keeping our house clean?