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View of installation at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2006 (rollover image)
       

SOA: Black and White Tales, 2006 is composed of a black board strip, an info corner and photographs.

               
 
Detail of installation at CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2007
               
       
SOA: Black and White Text, 2006 is 30" X 40' chalk on blackboard text/drawing that juxtaposes excerpts of The School of The Americas' official "Command Brief" presentation (in which the school's mission, course work, budget and history are presented) with various critical slogans and reflections appropriated from activist anti-SOA groups.
               
       
Detail of installation at CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art
       
Detail of installation at CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art
       
Partial view of installation: "SOA: Black and White Pain-ting # 13, # 14 and # 3, 40 x 40", archival inkjet print on canvas.
       
 
     
SOA: Info Desk, 2006 is a desk-corner that presents various works on xerox and audio. It provides critical information about the SOA, its mission, its representation by the media and traces a genealogy of US Interventionist policies since the school's founding in 1946.
     
 
"SOA: Info Desk," 2006, desk, audio CDs, headphones, newsprint publication, xerox copies, variable dimensions
 
 
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Detail "SOA: Info Desk," 2006