
The Theatre of War
- Publisher
- Perimeter Editions
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 978-1-922545-34-3
- Specifications
- Softcover
224 pages
Special edition of 50 copies includes genuine offset proof sheet (approx. 70 x 100 cm), signed and numbered
Published as a visual translation of her major three-channel moving image work, Stanislava Pinchuk's first book with Perimeter Editions recasts the opening lines of Homer's Iliad across geography, history, language, and current armed conflict. Ukrainian soldiers engage in intensive combat training at an unmarked location; a female choir rehearse in a Sarajevo theatre used for defiant performances during the Bosnian War; youths gather at Homer's Tomb on the Greek island of Ios. Just as the Iliad is set nine years into the Trojan War, Pinchuk undertook the work nine years into Russia's invasion of Ukraine; the piece was created as part of the Mordant Family Moving Image Commission and debuted at ACMI from 19 February to 10 June 2024.