Santiago Sierra commemorates the Syrian war dead

The Spanish conceptual artist Santiago Sierra is to stage a major performance that will last nine or ten days, during which the names of people who have died in the Syrian civil war will be read aloud. His new work, The Names of those Killed in the Syrian Conflict between 15th of March 2011 and 31st of December 2016, will take place in four locations. Pairs of Arabic speakers will read out a total of 144,308 names that have been compiled and verified by a team at the University of Buenos Aires