From JBAD, Lessons Learned
From JBAD, Lessons Learned takes its design from the US Army and Marine Corp’s Counterinsurgency Field Manual and is comprised entirely of field notes and direct quotation from my time as a “media embed” with US Forces stationed in Afghanistan. In order to gain approval to “embed” as a journalist, the experimental literary press Les Figues Press acted as my news agency and published the artist book of my findings. Organized alphabetically around terminology I encountered during my embed and, subsequent, associated meanings, the book has also acted as a script in conjunction with video performances I have given.
[LISTEN TO EXCERPT FROM From JBAD: Lessons Learned, 4:20 min.]
From JBAD: Lessons Learned, Les Figues Press, 2009, spiral-bound, 80pages, ed. of 100
From JBAD: Lessons Learned at Les Figues Press – www.lesfigues.com
The book launch for From JBAD, hosted at the Velaslavasay Panorama Theater in Los Angeles on the eve of the re-election of President Karzai in 2009, proceeded similar to a journalist’s debrief including reading from the book, video-performance, and Q&A.
