Made as the Vietnam War reached its height, ‘An Indo-Chinese Pun-Sculpture’ consisted of an enormous enlargement of part of a photograph selected from the front page of the New York Times showing the signing of a ‘Peace Agreement’ in Paris in 1973.My installation re-presents the round table as an oblong room with the Vietcong and North Vietnamese sitting on the north wall and the South Vietnamese and Americans sitting on the south wall. The New York Times is placed to the west and each direction is then labeled accordingly.
The Paris Peace Agreement stipulated a sixty-day period for the total withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam. It was the only article fully carried out.
Here is the full text of the Peace Agreement.
