Echolalia

Echolalia

Echolalia is the meaningless repetition of words or phrases associated with forms of dementia and aphasia. In the build-up to the war in Iraq certain phrases were endlessly repeated to the point where these empty rhetorical phrases were confused with concrete facts. I tried to record as many instances of people repeating the phrase “weapons of mass destruction” as I could stand and represent these statements in a way that draws attention to the deadening effect of their repetition, however emphatically they are expressed.

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George W. Bush

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Ari Fleischer

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John Ashcroft

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Tony Blair

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Tariq Aziz

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Colin Powell

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Richard Butler

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Jeremy Greenstock

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Suzanne Malveaux

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John Negroponte

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