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Shellshock (2010)

Top: Video stills from 'Shellshock', 2010, Johan Thom

Date: 2010

Medium: Video loop (50 frames per second HDV)

Short description:

The artist repeatedly throws 20 duck calling whistles against a bricked up window in a narrow passage close to his home. The whistles are made from used 12 bore, brass  bullet cartridges. The work is an extension of another piece entitled ‘Decoy’ (2010) (Click here to go there or click on the ‘Incantations’ sub-heading on the right)

Top: Photographic stills from residue and bricked up window

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