http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/weapons_of_mass_destruction_materialized Last week I promised more on Documenta 12's dark rooms, and the thought brings me to Spanish-born, Chicago-based artist Iņigo Manglano-Ovalle's Phantom Truck. Remember when Colin Powell told the United Nations, in February 2003, that Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs capable of mass destruction? A computer drawing of one of them was presented as "solid intelligence." Then came invasion. Then came the realization that these things, buried under the ground, weren't capable of inflicting all that crazy terror. The artist made a life-sized replica of one of the labs for Documenta. It sat in an unlit room. Because of... Copyright 2008 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:49:43 -0800 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:00:41 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I prefer Songs of Mass of Destruction by Annie Lennox over the "Weapons..." version by Colon Bowel.

]]> patrick http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/weapons_of_mass_destruction_materialized#c821761 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/weapons_of_mass_destruction_materialized#c821761 Arts Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:00:41 -0800