true story
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Vuelos de la Muerte, True Stories
Between 1976 and 1983, while I was living a happy childhood in Argentina, a different story was unraveling in the clandestine circles of my home country. Nearly 30,000 people were kidnapped, tortured and murdered for political and religious reasons without a trial. This is the true story of the Argentine genocide at the hands of the military dictatorship. Drugged, naked and still alive, innocent people were dropped from a plane into the ocean, never to be found. Their ideologies, beliefs and struggles faded with them into the darkness of the Río de la Plata. They remain neither dead nor alive… conveniently disappeared.
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This work was part of the show True Stories, exhibited at the M-Trac Lofts in Edmonton, June 09 to 15, 2009. This was a collaborative exhibit by Design Faculty at Grant MacEwan University. The show was funded by the Centre for the Arts and Communications Special Research Fund | www.designfaculty.ca
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This piece was also selected by writer Jannie Edwards to be the cover of her poetry book “Falling Blues” (2010) published by Frontenac House.