Snapshot

Overview

Snapshot is a collective reconstruction of news stories in the United Arab Emirates over the last four decades. Eğrikavuk has conducted research in UAE news archives and chosen more than a hundred headlines from major newspapers and magazines. Each headline is printed on a piece of paper and distributed to viewers, who are asked to reconstruct the story in writing. Their fictional reports are then read out by a professional news anchor.

Earlier versions of Snapshot were performed in Istanbul and Chicago in 2007, with Turkish and American news stories respectively.


2013

This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 11

Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation