Untitled
From the 2008 California Biennial.
With robby herbst and christina ulke.

A specially manufactured venting duct (see previous page) dropped a specific number
of issue 6 of the Journal of Aesthetics & protests per day, tmed to the match up with the daily tally of war dead in Iraq the previous year.

Accompanying the sculpture was this wall text below.

SCORE FOR DAILY BOOK DROP (please take one if available)
Estimated casualty numbers (soldiers, police, contractors, journalists and documented Iraqi civilians) from Iraq and Afghanistan October 26, 2007 to March 15, 2008.
The numbers for Iraqi civilian casualties sourced for the list below are recognized by sources themselves as insufficient. Most agree that the civilian death toll is much higher. “On Friday, September 14, 2007, ORB (Opinion Research
Business), an independent polling agency located in London, published estimates of the total war casualties in Iraq since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. At over 1.2 million deaths (1,220,580), this estimate is the highest number
published so far. From the poll margin of error of +/-2.5% ORB calculated a range of 733,158 to 1,446,063 deaths.” (MediaLens, September 2007)
There is no readily available information for Afghani civilians.
Daily casualty numbers according to Iraqbodycount.com, Icausualty.com, and The New York Times:
10/26-32
10/27-52
10/28-30
10/29-111
10/30-31
10/31-36
11/1-39
11/2-12
11/3/-31
11/4/-83
11/5/-33
11/6/-36
11/7-32
11/8-43
11/9-34
11/10-46
11/11-18
11/12-37
11/13-38
11/14-82
11/15-21
11/16-31
11/17-64
11/18-39
11/19-44
11/20-40
11/21-27
11/22-60
11/23-81
11/24-22
11/25-42
11/26-22
11/27-78
11/28-18
11/29-30
11/30-25
12/1-69
12/2-24
12/3-32
12/4-31
12/5-46
12/6-37
12/7-32
12/8-27
12/9-30
12/10-36
12/11-19
12/12-84

download the pdf for the rest of the death-tolls