american dreams

inception: 2002

Description

AMERICAN DREAMS: A WORK IN PROGRESS
MATERIALS
62 packages , 16" x 11" x 2-5" each, installed on 8 sections of 2' x 4' pegboard.
american dreams is an interactive installation making use of common retail packaging and display aesthetics where gallery participants may self reflectively play the role of consumers while uncovering unsettling relationships between free market globalization and military domination. The installation represents an ongoing meditation on the abuse of power and prevailing mythologies and ideologies of US culture.

attributed to: mark cooley

inception: 13 December 2002

Legacy descriptive tags

free trade, military industrial complex

Attribution: mark cooley

War, Labor, Installation, Globalization, Exhibition

Attribution: Rhizome staff

Metadata

Descriptive Data

artist: mark cooley

title: american dreams

inception: 2002