Last Words
ISBN-13: 9782914563772
Author(s): Vanessa Place
Subjects: AV
Publisher: Dis Voir
Publisher Imprint: Dis Voir
Publication Date: 27-01-2015
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£25.00
About the book
For her ongoing project Last Words leading Conceptual poet and lawyer Vanessa Place has recorded in her own voice the last statements of all of the inmates executed in Texas as recorded by the state since 1982. This volume comprises a transcription of an 80-minute excerpt of the project Place's project will continue as the executions are slated to continue indefinitely. Inmates who refused to speak are represented by five seconds of silence. In Last Words the sentence of death is performed through the final sentences of the condemned.