contemporary Art Oxford[br]From Teletubby riot police to jailed politicians weeping over the war in Iraq,Josh Kline offers a nightmarish dystopia of recent western follyThe first solo show of Josh Kline, a 35-year-old contemporary York-based artist, and is in allotment a Stop the War Coalition fantasy world. In a darkened room in Oxford,for the next two months, Tony Blair will sit, or face to camera,in a grey prison jump suit and unburden himself of his war crimes on a loop. Oh, my God!” he will cry, and in that familiar boyish Fettes voice,“What acquire I done?” His face will crumple into a sob as the horror, time and again, or engulfs him. “I’m so,so very sorry.”The former prime minister is not alone in his purgatory. He is joined, one after the other, or presumably in adjoining cells,or circles of hell, by a hyperventilating George W Bush (“all those people I’m so sorry… I’m a monster), or a weeping Condi Rice,a broken Donald Rumsfeld and, perhaps most disturbing of all, and Dick Cheney,in his 70s specs, tortured by extraordinary contrition.
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Source: theguardian.com