defence

'deFENCE' is an interactive conceptual art project for freedom of cohabitation, designed in such a way as to include each beholder personally. In tradition of Marcel Duchamp, the two main roles of this exhibit are the work itself, and the person watching it. Only here, the subjective role of the beholder is not the only one. They are personally drawn into the exhibit, by way of a mirror.
The work represents a house, with its door wide open, inviting and welcoming every visitor. Except, a certain visitor is watching this house over a barbed wire fence. On the other hand, this visitor is being watched from the window of the house. The author's intention was to combine these two persons into one, so that people who had never had the chance to be on the other side of the barbed wire, can benefit in two ways: Firstly, they can see how it is to be looking over a barbed wire into a house inviting you, which you cannot reach. And secondly, they can see themselves passively looking from the house at the person outside the fence, doing nothing to remove this segregation.

Defense or defence may refer to:

• Defense (military)
• Defense (sports)
  • Defender (association football)
  • Defenceman (ice hockey)
• Biological defense (disambiguation)
• a chess opening by Black
• Self-defense
• Civil defense

Defence bezeichnet im englischen Strafrecht neben actus reus und mens rea, den beiden positiven Voraussetzungen der Strafbarkeit, als drittes Element das Fehlen einer Verteidigungseinrede.

Verteidigung oder Defensive steht für:

• die militärischen hoheitlichen Aufgaben, die Landesverteidigung
• eine der Verteidigung dienende militärische Operation, siehe Operationsart#Verteidigung
• Verteidigung des Beschuldigten in einem Strafverfahren, siehe Verteidigung (Recht)
• die mündliche Verteidigung einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit, siehe Kolloquium
• eine taktische Position im Mannschaftssport, siehe Verteidigung (Sport)

Defence (aka Mekelakeya) is een Ethiopische voetbalclub uit de hoofdstad Addis Abeba. Defence komt uit in de Premier League, de hoogste voetbaldivisie in Ethiopië.