Joseph Delappe Ă€r en amerikansk konstnĂ€r som arbetar med performance i on-line vĂ€rldar och dataspel. I krigsspelet “Medal of Honor: Allied Assault” gjorde han t ex en serie med diktlĂ€sningar av krigspoeter som Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon var en brittisk soldat som Ă€rorikt slogs i första vĂ€rldskriget, men efter en krigsskada dĂ„ han trĂ€ffade flera pacifister Ă€ndrade han inriktning och fördömde kriget. Han började dĂ€refter skriva satiriska antikrigsdikter som den hĂ€r:

The One-Legged Man

Propped on a stick he viewed the August weald;
Squat orchard trees and oasts with painted cowls;
A homely, tangled hedge, a corn-stalked field,
And sound of barking dogs and farmyard fowls.

And he’d come home again to find it more
Desirable than ever it was before.
How right it seemed that he should reach the span
Of comfortable years allowed to man!

Splendid to eat and sleep and choose a wife,
Safe with his wound, a citizen of life.
He hobbled blithely through the garden gate,
And thought: “Thank God they had to amputate!”

August 1916

BBC har en kort introduktion om Sasson om du vill veta mer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/sassoon_siegfried.shtml

och mer om konstprojektet hittar du pÄ adress:

http://www.unr.edu/art/DELAPPE/DeLappe%20Main%20Page/DeLappe%20Online%20MAIN.html



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  1. Anneli Hallgren on March 12, 2009 10:35

    Surrealismen i dataspelens vÀrld
    Förförande kreativ!

    FörÀndrar den med en tryckning
    Vinner över motspelaren!

    Sitter hela natten’
    Gryningen-morgonljuset
    HĂ€lsar mej tillbaka till verkligheten!

    MVH Gladiatan

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