Any terror attack flips the switch from assumed safety to fear, from light to darkness, evoking mourning from around the world.
Unlike the full piece seen last year, this new excerpt does not evoke a mourning ritual.
His own death in Madrid in August 1635 evoked national mourning.
Three days later, on April 10, en route to another memorial ceremony, a plane carrying Kaczyński crashed near Smolensk, near the Katyn site, killing the president, his wife, the army chief of staff, the head of the national security bureau, the president of the national bank, and a number of Polish government officials and evoking widespread mourning in Poland.
The overall effect is to evoke a nostalgic mourning for the undelivered promises of modernity and for the unrealized possibilities of collective public life.
"The loud, noisy ones do call attention to themselves," Professor Kornblum added, "but a silent protest evokes feelings of mourning and loss, a deprivation of rights, people who have lost their voice or withheld their voice.
Although the piece's original title did not evoke a theme of mourning, the work is intensely moving, enhanced by the mix of sound and wailing composed and performed by Joe Jennings on tape.
Performed in the top screen, this feat resembles a flag at full-mast, suggesting ascendancy and security; in the lower screen, it evokes half-staff, and mourning or distress.
For another site-specific piece aptly and slyly titled "The Last Judgment" they projected looped images of choppy water and circling seagulls onto the curved ceiling of the crematorium's mourning chapel, evoking the vertiginous sensation of being enveloped by a night sky and a deep black ocean at the same time.
The head coverings add a sombre, serious note, evoking both devotion (monks or nuns) and mourning.
