Airplanes are always girls
- WCU Author/Contributor (non-WCU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Courtney Glenn Chappell (Creator)
- Institution
- Western Carolina University (WCU )
- Web Site: http://library.wcu.edu/
- Advisor
- Marya Roland
Abstract: My work arises from the process of extracting content from real events. I
reassemble this content and transform it into the components comprising my installation,
entitled I Can See Your House From Up Here. The subject for my thesis is centered on a
continuing atrocity that occurs beyond my immediate proximity, specifically the
American invasion of Iraq beginning in 1990 during the Persian Gulf War. My
experience of the war is mediated and incomplete; it is constructed from partial narratives
and a distorted picture of ostensibly real events. I am removed from this atrocity as a
result of geographical distance and political circumstance. Using the imagery from
magazines, newspapers, internet search engines, propaganda material, military
documents, surveillance footage, and published satellite imagery of the surface of Iraq, I
attempt to reconstruct yet another incomplete narrative of imagined events in an attempt
to explore social constructs relating to gender militarization. My personal experiences relating to oppressive and uncontrollable events are manifested in the form of an
installation. I Can See Your House From Up Here was composed using a variety of
salvaged materials including paper, wire, and cardboard.
Airplanes are always girls
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- art, installation, Iraq war, Joseph Beuys, Lynda Benglis
- Subjects
- Installations (Art)
- War in art