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Wikipedia page on Jean Charles de Menezes' death
If You Meet Me On The Road,
Kill Me
Performance intervention in response to the shooting death of Brazilian national and British resident Jean Charles de Menezes by London police in a tube station on July 22, 2005 on suspicion of terrorist activity.
I slit the tips of my fingers with a boxcutter, bled into seven* empty bullet casings and sealed them with wax, then asked the audience to write how this action was a threat to national security and the letters were mailed, sight-unseen to CSIS - the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service.
*at that time, the known number of shots fired into de Menezes
performance intervention
undertaken on the steps of the Provincial Courthouse of Newfoundland & Labrador
August 7, 2005
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