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rdem Taʂdelen’s work here draws on a line of thinking he began about the veracity of images during several recent public installations of in Vienna, Istanbul and Saskatoon This hand-held version reframes the project and extends its questions about the fragility of truths and processes of coming to recognize what’s real, in both visual and verbal languages. The single question at the As Taʂdelen explains, “Tynan was of the belief that to have a social purpose, theatre should engage with and respond to the political realities of the moment.” As his own entry into this debate about art’s entanglement with politics, and in light of some of today’s most pressing political quandaries, Taʂdelen inserted Tynan’s statement into public spaces as a fraudulent document of itself, and made it look as if it had been there before, a fake copy of a non-existent past event.