A channel devoted to screening video works from our collection. Each work will be viewable for four days, beginning and ending at noon.
Katarzyna Kozyra Punishment and Crime
2002, video instllation
Screening 10/8 - 10/11
“High-end shooting clubs and paintball warfare are popular ways for grown-ups in America to nostalgically recreate the war games they played as little kids. Kozyra's new video installation depicts a group of Polish gun enthusiasts who have taken the game to an extreme. They spend weekends firing vintage World War II rocket launchers, machine guns, and flamethrowers at cars, buildings, and other targets they build for the express purpose of destroying - with no accompanying ideology, politics, or logic.
The title of the work, Punishment and Crime, is an ambiguous reversal of the Dostoevsky novel in which Raskolnikov's guilt for committing a crime creates the necessity for punishment and absolution. Here, the act of destruction is itself the punishment. Here we developed the need to destroy as a result of too many movies and no real war" And does the final monitor, which shows the participants hanging in a tree like lynching victims, indicate the crime or is the crime the reality of war these weekenders simulate" Kozyra never supplies answers or resolutions.
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