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Country: Australia  
Mike Barnard

    1.Caught in the crosswires Afghanistan, 2010 Watercolour and tape on Arches 50x75 cm EURo 420   2.Caught in the crosswires Afghanistan, 2010 Watercolour and tape on Arches 50x75 cm EURo 420   3.Caught in the crosswires Afghanistan, 2010 Watercolour and tape on Arches 50x75 cm EURo 420   4.What’s on the other channel? Afghanistan, 2011 Oil on MDF 25x30 cm EURo 620  5.What’s on the other channel? Afghanistan, 2011  Oil on MDF 25x3 cm EURo 620  6.What’s on the other channel? Afghanistan, 2011 Oil on MDF 25x30 cm EURo 620  


 

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Following a war on TV is an ambiguous enterprise. Whose conversations we are invited to take part in is something we can ask after but seldom know. In the space between an action and its viewed reception between the battlefront in Afghanistan and its manifestation on the evening news lies a third battleground. How do we make sense of this newsmedia interlocutor the other channel we often seek but never quite get to? How do we see ourselves at war? And does it ultimately matter?

 

 

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