Echolalia

Echolalia is the meaningless repetition of words or phrases associated with forms of dementia and aphasia. In the build-up to the war in Iraq certain phrases were endlessly repeated to the point where these empty rhetorical phrases were confused with concrete facts. I tried to record as many instances of people repeating the phrase “weapons of mass destruction” as I could stand and represent these statements in a way that draws attention to the deadening effect of their repetition, however emphatically they are expressed.

• Robert ArnoldDirector

• George W. BushSelf
• Ari FleischerSelf
• John AshcroftSelf
• Tony BlairSelf
• Tariq AzizSelf
• Colin PowellSelf
• Richard ButlerSelf
• Jeremy GreenstockSelf
• Suzanne MalveauxSelf
• John NegroponteSelf
• Victoria ClarkeSelf
• Paul WolfowitzSelf