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.
Biography
The contingency of normality is the focus of Reed’s artistic and textual practice. Normality can only be apprehended as a given reality through social consensus, and this consensus is inherently plastic, malleable. The play with the plasticity (potential) of the normal, both conceptually and materially, constitutes the foundation of her practice. Reed’s (often) obsessive works [...]