Mona Hatoum, "Variation on Discord and Divisions" (1984), documentation of performance at Western Front, Vancouver, color video with sound; 27 minutes, 45 seconds
“Early Works instead confronts viewers with the body of the artist as a synecdoche not only for the collective trauma experienced by the dispossessed, but for all of our complicity — intentional or not — in enabling a world in which the pain of others is merely a spectacle to be watched on a screen.”