Remembering Waco

Clive Doyle and Dick Reavis in Dialogue
1.8.04

Remembering Waco
January 15, 2004, 6:30 PM

Artist, survivor, and author uncover Waco's ashes in exhibition and public dialogue

PUBLIC PROGRAM:
San Antonio, TX – On Thursday, January 15, 2004, 6:30 – 8:00 PM, Waco siege survivor Clive Doyle will join local writer and activist Dick Reavis at ArtPace to share their insights into the hotly debated events of the 1993 federal raid on the Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. Reavis, author of The Ashes of Waco—the primer on religious leader David Koresh—will discuss his findings, dispelling media-propagated myths about the disaster. Koresh-follower Clive Doyle will talk about his experiences before, during, and after the siege. The dialogue will serve to contextualize artist Jeremy Deller's residency project, Memory Bucket, which features an interview with Doyle and photographs of the Mount Carmel site. ArtPace is located at 445 N. Main Avenue. Free parking at S. Flores and Savings Streets. Admission is free. Please call 210.212.4900 for further details.

ABOUT THE PROJECT:
During his residency at ArtPace, British artist Jeremy Deller visited the now infamous 'Branch Davidian' compound near Waco, Texas—the site of a widely critiqued government siege which resulted in a deadly fire. Deller presents his take on Texas in Memory Bucket, an installation of video, photographic prints, and Texas paraphernalia that allude to the social, political, and natural elements encountered during his travels throughout the state. During his two-month residency at ArtPace, Deller visited bat caves and other local haunts, traveled to the now-famed town of Crawford, and spoke with Clive Doyle, a survivor of the disaster in Waco. Deller's Memory Bucket mixes and re- mixes the live interviews, sound samples, souvenirs, and photographs he gathered along the way.

The artist engages with Doyle in Memory Bucket's main component—a video featuring interviews with people from Crawford and Waco interspersed with footage that folds in other aspects of Texas. In the closing moments of the video, Deller shifts emphasis from humankind to the natural world, from the individuals who make up the state to the creatures who depend on its unique topography. Perhaps this is a telling conclusion to Memory Bucket—a project that, by chance and choice, brings people together to tell a story about Texas.

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