Felicitous Football: One Minute of Iraqi Jubilation
Archival Print: 100 cm X 100 cm
Nike Mercurial Asian Cup 2007 Tournament Ball
Installaion view
2009
Archival Print, welded metal, Nike Mercurial Asian cup (2007) football
Print: 100 cm X 100 cm
A one minute English phonetic transcription of the Iraqi sport-caster announcing / celebrating the unprobable win of the Iraqi national football team in the Asian Cup in 2007, as heard from state television.
Plurinaming / Polyphony
The practice of multiple naming began in 2001 as a by-product of physical displacement, and as an adaptive game in negotiating foreign cultural/linguistic contexts. The name is acquired after a period of acquaintanceship with a “local”, and as a gift, cannot be refused or negotiated. Names are not an alias, but rather a compounding of the original name, as such they are notated as follows:
Pia Fuchs deutsche Identität von Patricia Reed.