Jartti kari mukku ajjulunginyi / Other People’s Property (O.P.P.)

A little over a decade after Brenda Ann Spencer’s 1979 school shooting at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, Karen Kilimnik used the crime as the premise for an artwork.

I have begun to desire noise. Noise that prompts. Maybe wounds. I want to remember something that feels tangible, and if I have no memory of how this feels I want to create one. 

“It is no longer my face (identification), but the face that has somehow been given to me (circumstantial possession) as stage property.”  —  Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium