Codes of Conduct, Park Avenue Armory, for Creative Time’s Democracy Now exhibition

Codes of Conduct combines a selection of documents from the Index archive with a sound loop and slide projections that isolate and highlight image and text fragments that describe suppressed military histories traced within those documents.

The selection of documents highlights both secret and public prisons which have played central roles in redefining fundamental military terms and principles, including "enemy," "combatant," "cruel and inhuman treatment," and institutionalized codes of conduct embodied in the Army Field Manual and Geneva Conventions.

The slides and sounds within the space shed light on individual narratives of detention, rendition, torture, death and disappearance, including the cases of current Guantanamo detainees and former "ghost prisoners," in order to suggest connections between military violence abroad and the loss of civil liberties at home.