Polystyrene Dream

From Rhizome Artbase
Juliet Davis
2002
Description

Polystyrene Dream is an interactive Flash artwork that places Barbie in unexpected environments such as a fertility clinic and Ground Zero to highlight the unsettling implications of the "American Dream."

Rhizome staff
2021

I am interested in how we attractively package even the most unsettling aspects of culture, from war and religion to reproductive technologies. My artwork seeks to manipulate the commercial "grid" and give voice to contradictions that we live as Americans, resisting and yet buying into commercial existence.

Juliet Davis
25 October 2002
Legacy descriptive tags
Juliet Davis, World Trade Towers, The Vatican, New York City, fertility clinic, Afghanistan
Attribution: Juliet Davis
tactical, Participatory, allegory, War, globalization, gender, commercialization, body, audio, Animation, HTML, Flash, Visual
Attribution: Rhizome staff
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Variant History
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2002
Juliet Davis
static files
25 October 2002
cloning
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