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On Native Land : Mail Art Story : Death-ball Visits Art Gallery, or, When is the logic of faraway death not faraway enough?

Added on January 16, 2015 by Drittens Cat.

Materials: a large silk lantern, paint, a sacred valley in an occupied nation, a camera, rope, a ladder, a long metal rod, one large home-made corrugated plastic mailing envelope, stamps.

Type: installation + mail art.

In August 2014 The Pinky Show was invited to participate in a mail art exhibition and was told by the event organizers, "You can send anything... You can send rocks if you want." Not interested in sending rocks, we decided to send them a large death ball instead, along with a couple of post cards with an explanation of where our ball comes from and what it represents.

War Injuries Cat Toys project : Dec 2014 progress report

Added on January 13, 2015 by Drittens Cat.

Type: crocheted toys
Materials: bulky yarn (cover) and wool roving (stuffing)

Just a mini-report on the "progress" of Bunny's epic cat toy project, now taken up by Pinky.

Dreams & Nightmares of Empire : Biological Specimens from The Pinky Show collection

Added on May 30, 2013 by Drittens Cat.

Materials: crocheted octopus (wool), specimen jar, formaldehyde

Type: poster, 20x30 inches

Summary: We like illustrated thought-experiments. For example, here we have a baby octopus dead in a specimen jar, collected off the south shore of Hawaii in 1893 before it had a chance to grow up to be an adult imperial animal. What kind of world would we be living in now had the U.S. not chosen Empire as its future, way back when at the end of the 19th century? What kind of different thoughts and actions would have been necessary to avert the catastrophes brought on by the imperial clashes of the 20th century? What preventable future disasters are we facing right now? And what should we be doing about them?

i am ready for love at any moment : house

Added on January 26, 2013 by Drittens Cat.

This is another image from our i am ready series. I remember once Bunny told me, "This is not an antidote to my death image. They are complimentary."

i am ready for death at any moment : wood

Added on January 25, 2013 by Drittens Cat.

This image is part of a series that we made back in January 2010, based on visions Bunny was having at the time. This is shortly after Bunny started to be very sick.

On Native Land : at the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada (2007)

Added on October 13, 2012 by Drittens Cat.

We first visited the Smithsonian's Atomic Testing Museum in 2007. We hated it. The following images represent our cat-sized response to the institution as a whole, and also a certain exhibit of photographs in the main gallery in particular.

War Deaths, Traumas, and Other Misc. Injuries cat toys

Added on September 21, 2012 by Drittens Cat.

Type: crocheted toy
Height: 15 inches
Materials: bulky yarn (cover) and wool roving (stuffing)

This stuffed cat (number 001) is part of an unfinished series of 150+ toys that Bunny was working on when she died in January 2013. It was meant as a three-dimensional extension of our poster project of the same name.

AAM 2010 MuseumExpo booth, display cases & ephemera

Added on May 24, 2010 by Drittens Cat.

Type: poster, flier, button
Summary: These are some of the ephemera we made as part of our participation at the 2010 American Association of Museums Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo in Los Angeles, California. Trivia question for nerds: How many future-vehicles can you identify in the poster? Recognize any of the buildings?

Pinky meets the colonizer

Added on February 23, 2010 by Drittens Cat.

Type: digital image

Summary: This is an image Pinky drew after having an eighteen-month dream about the psychological effects of settler colonialism on settlers.

On Native Land : Pinky & Bunny pull 360 pounds of uranium tailings through Petrified Forest National Park

Added on December 11, 2009 by Drittens Cat.

Type: digital image
Summary: From our On Native Land series. Anyone caught removing even a small piece of fossilized wood from Petrified Forest National Park will get fined $325. But Pinky & Bunny aren't stealing souvenirs, they're just spreading deadly radioactive contamination (okay, that's not real uranium), which must not be a big deal because the U.S. Government and corporations have been doing that in Navajo country for decades and no one's punishing them.

On Native Land : Pinky & Bunny are visited by the ghosts of 10,000 slaughtered sheep

Added on December 10, 2009 by Drittens Cat.

Type: digital image
Summary: From our On Native Land series. Here we see lots of ghosts of Navajo Churro sheep (shot by U.S. Government agents and soldiers, poisoned water, radioactive contamination, etc.) coming around during Pinky & Bunny's most recent walk through Dinetah.

On Native Land : stupid tourists i wish you would all get out of here

Added on December 9, 2009 by Drittens Cat.

Type: digital image
Summary: From our On Native Land series. Are sacred sites still sacred after being transformed into a U.S. "National Park"? Can a settler state legitimately claim ownership of Native peoples' ancestral lands in the shadow of genocide? Well perhaps these are interesting questions but right now Bunny just knows her visit to Mesa Verde is being ruined because there's just too many tourists all over the place.

On Native Land : I'M ON UR LAND / MAPPIN UR DEMIZE

Added on November 25, 2009 by Drittens Cat.

Type: digital image
Summary: Among other things, maps are important tools of conquest. They also often record inconvenient evidence that counter misleading settler narratives - for example: "The land was vacant; there was no genocide." From our On Native Land series, this piece was originally shown at the Picturing Politics 2008 exhibition, Arlington Arts Center (VA).

Class Treason Stories (excerpts)

Added on November 12, 2009 by Drittens Cat.

Type: installation with audio/video
Exhibition locations: University of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, CANADA, 2009), Toronto Free Gallery (Toronto, CANADA, 2010), and Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, Quebec).

Here are some installation views, mostly from the University of Winnipeg exhibition, with a few photos from Toronto and Sherbrooke towards the end.

On Native Land : Triptych

Added on June 16, 2008 by Drittens Cat.

Artists' statement: "We are living in the shadow of violence and denial."

Summary: Bunny and I made the following pieces for the Picturing Politics 2008: Artists Speak to Power exhibition at the Arlington Arts Center. We made the piece specifically to address residents of D.C./Virginia/Maryland region. The exhibition ran from Agust 15 - September 27, 2008.