Remembering Waco

01.08.04

Remembering Waco

January 15, 2004, 6:30 PM

Artist, survivor, and author uncover Waco's ashes in exhibition and public dialogue

PUBLIC PROGRAM:

San Antonio, TX ? Thursday, January 15, 2004, 6:30 ?00 PM, Waco siege
survivor Clive Doyle will join local writer and activist Dick Reavis at ArtPace to share
their insights into the hotly debated events of the 1993 federal raid on the Davidian
compound near Waco, Texas. Reavis, author of The Ashes of Waco? primer on
religious leader David Koresh?l discuss his findings, dispelling media-propagated
myths about the disaster. Koresh-follower Clive Doyle will talk about his experiences
before, during, and after the siege. The dialogue will serve to contextualize artist Jeremy
Deller's residency project, Memory Bucket, which features an interview with Doyle and
photographs of the Mount Carmel site. ArtPace is located at 445 N. Main Avenue. Free
parking at S. Flores and Savings Streets. Admission is free. Please call 210.212.4900 for
further details.

ABOUT THE PROJECT:

During his residency at ArtPace, British artist Jeremy Deller visited the now
infamous 'Branch Davidian' compound near Waco, Texas? site of a widely critiqued
government siege which resulted in a deadly fire. Deller presents his take on Texas in
Memory Bucket, an installation of video, photographic prints, and Texas paraphernalia
that allude to the social, political, and natural elements encountered during his travels
throughout the state. During his two-month residency at ArtPace, Deller visited bat caves
and other local haunts, traveled to the now-famed town of Crawford, and spoke with
Clive Doyle, a survivor of the disaster in Waco. Deller's Memory Bucket mixes and re-
mixes the live interviews, sound samples, souvenirs, and photographs he gathered along
the way.

The artist engages with Doyle in Memory Bucket's main component?ideo
featuring interviews with people from Crawford and Waco interspersed with footage that
folds in other aspects of Texas. In the closing moments of the video, Deller shifts
emphasis from humankind to the natural world, from the individuals who make up the
state to the creatures who depend on its unique topography. Perhaps this is a telling
conclusion to Memory Bucket?roject that, by chance and choice, brings people
together to tell a story about Texas.

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