Jacques Derrida maintained that because of the failure of language, some of the greatest phenomena in our world are dismissed too soon. The phenomena that captured Derrida’s imagination were spectres, ghosts and haunting. These are critical and problematic things that for Derrida remained ‘difficult to name: neither soul nor body, and both one and the other'. Derrida encouraged academics and scholars to set up dialogues and discourse with ghosts, so as to understand why they return as iconography and other symbolic liveable representations, and to determine what they have to tell us.
This project responds to Derrida’s call. The work emerged from an interdiscipline of practice led research and a collaboration between three independent practitioners. The research brought together three individuals with differing backgrounds and methods of capturing the ghost images of violence in Syria. These are: a UK visual artist who working remotely interpreted the war in Syria via a computer screen; a Syrian photographer who recorded the violence first hand; and a Syrian/Palestinian musician who played a concerto for peace in the streets of Yarmouk where he lived.
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