Leah Bredendieck
In event of

History is written by the victors, but is also written by those prepared to lose. For every speech delivered in victory there is another written in case of disaster.

Through compiling both the undelivered and delivered speech, a new archive is created, a Schrödinger’s history, in which all permutations of an event transpire. The Apollo 11 astronauts both make it home and are abandoned on the moon. Eisenhower announces both the success and failure of the D-Day landings. Hilary Clinton both loses and wins the 2016 presidential election.

History is not written in hindsight, it is written in advance.

BA (Hons) Visual Communication


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1-of-5: LIFE Magazine, 1969 Special Edition: “To The Moon and Back”
2-of-5: Richard Nixon’s undelivered “In Event of Moon Disaster” speech, 1969, animated in Macintosh SuperPaint
3-of-5: JFK’s undelivered Dallas Trade Mart Speech interwoven with LBJ’s address delivered five days after the assassination
4-of-5: Poster incorporating a speech from WINTEX-CIMEX war-games
5-of-5: Richard Nixon’s undelivered “In Event of Moon Disaster” speech, 1969, animated in Macintosh SuperPaint