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Jeremy Deller // Veteran's Day Parade: The End of the Empire

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Jeremy Deller Born (1966) and lives in the UK. Recent solo exhibitions and projects: Barbican Centre, London (2005), Kunsthalle Basel (2005), Louvre Museum, Paris (2006); recent group exhibitions: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2007), Tate Britain, London (Turner Prize exhibition, 2007), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2008).

The video Veterans Day Parade: The End of the Empire (2002) is part of a multi-media project produced by Jeremy Deller during a 2001 sojourn in the United States. Just after September 11, he attended a veterans parade that led him to ponder the decline of the empire, reminding him of the Kinks song “Victoria” – whose lyrics allude to the British Empire: “I was born, lucky me, / In a land that I love, though I’m poor I am free, / When I grow, I shall fight, / For this land I will die / Where the sun never sets.” Deller develops projects that excavate the history of a particular place, physically exploring it and turning to local people and their stories, like the folk singers he admires.

Ariel Schlesinger