Named after the federal law that makes torture a crime, US CODE SECTION 2340A is a response to our government's use of so-called "coercive interogation techniques" aaplied to detainees in the "war on terror" and the leaking of Justice Department memoranda which defend the use of torture during interrogations.

Dismayed by the public's tactic acceptance of this policy of torture, artists Serena Wellen and Nancy Popp responded with a video which pairs the dehumanizing language of the jsutice department's legal counsel with the sound of a populace inured to the specacle of torture in the media.

1. Serena Wellen and Nancy Popp have been collaborating
2. for nearly two years on projects addressing torture and United States law.
   
3. Ms. Wellen, an attorney working in photography and video,
   resides in San Francisco. Ms. Popp, an educator residing in Los Angeles,
4. works with performance, video and photography.
   in Los Angeles, works with performance, video and photography.