Dead Heat

Project Overview

  1. Dennis Del Favero
  2. 2007
  1. Two single channel DVD-Videos. 4 minutes. BW. Stereo.
  2. Two channel DVD Installation. 4 minutes. BW. Stereo.
  1. Part 1: 45 Minutes
  2. Part 2: Halflife

Dead Heat is based on the apparent suicide of David Kelly on the 17th July, 2003 and the subsequent Hutton Inquiry into his death. Kelly, one of the world’s pre-eminent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) scientists came to grief in his encounter with the UK’s Ministry of Defence when he publicly questioned the validity of the Government’s claim that Iraq could deploy WMD within 45 minutes. It reconstructs a phone conversation between Kelly and a journalist, days before his death, framed by the Hutton Inquiry’s psychiatric report on Kelly.

Dead Heat can be presented as either a single channel or two channel DVD Video Installation, comprising the DVD Videos 45 Minutes and Halflife.

Exhibited at

  • Kunstraum Marion Scharman, 2009

halflife
Halflife