In 1946, as part of a\u00a0famous essay, Orwell wrote that “political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness”. Roughly sixty years after, during the Memorial Day weekend, the words \u201cExistence or nonexistence\u201d suddenly appear in Manhattan sky, quickly captured and uploaded on social media by random witnesses of the events, fascinated by the enigmatic thus metaphysical tone of the slogan.<\/p>\n
This mysterious and spectacular appearance is in reality an aerial performance by\u00a0David Birkin, and the words the one extracted by a letter from CIA that, answering to a request of information on the reserved program of Drones usage by the american government, restrict itself stating not to deny and not to confirm the existence of the requested documents. Orwells’ words may seem thus more prophetic than expected, configuring the artist work as s whole reflection not only on the failure of a\u00a0concept of truth\u00a0inside the terrorism war, but also on the tools of language manipulation, unaware element of a progressive process of reality\u00a0mystification.<\/p>\n
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Bianca Cavuti<\/p>\n
David Birkin,\u00a0Severe Clear<\/em>, 2014<\/p>\n \u00a9David Birkin 2014,\u00a0courtesy a\/political<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1946, as part of a\u00a0famous essay, Orwell wrote that “political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness”. Roughly sixty years after, during the Memorial Day weekend, the words \u201cExistence or nonexistence\u201d suddenly appear in Manhattan sky, quickly captured and uploaded on social media by random witnesses of the events, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[210],"tags":[681,218,684,226,682],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-works-in-focus","tag-david-birkin","tag-generazione-critica-2-en","tag-new-york","tag-opera-al-centro-2-en","tag-severe-clear"],"yoast_head":"\n