The 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings marked the unmistakable beginning of the end of the «Red Scare» period in the United States. Produced for the sixtieth anniversary of the televised hearings, «The End of an Error» refashions the archival record to take a side-ways look at this important historical event. By fictionalizing the story as a history lesson narrated from contemporary Iran (voice in Farsi with English subtitles), this three-projection video installation, presented here in single channel format, re-positions the expected narrative center and reports the demise of the «communist threat» from the vantage point of what has since emerged in the American imagination as the «terrorist state». Ultimately, the piece asks: From what position do we remember a triumph in history?

biografia

Peter Freund is usually working on something else. He writes to avoid making art and makes art to avoid writing. He is a sometimes curator so as to avoid his own work, but usually that inspires him to write or make art. He is co-founder of the Barcelona-based artist collective, Adversorecto, which uses “retraction” as a working method for producing individual and collaborative works. www.peterfreund.art

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