4JAN09
the HOMELAND SECURITY Collection
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RECENT
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 PHOTO FROM INVITATION TO SHOW AND OPENING AT LIVING/LEARNING GALLERY, UNVERSITY OF VERMONT, OCTOBER 4TH, 2004 |
THE TRUTH
IN BLACK AND WHITE
- Gallery on the Green, Shelburne, Vermont [January 17th -
February 28th]
STRANGE ADVENTURES/ArtLexis
- LAB GALLERY - at 47th Street and Lexington, NYC [Jan
6th - Jan 15th]
part of a show at the Novosibirsk
State Art Museum [fall 2005] and
interview in JALOUSE
(Russia)
part of
a show at the Yellowbird
Gallery Newburg, NY with HARVEST SECUIRTY
& FOURTH of JULY SECURITY
included in THE GUN SHOW at Studio
Place Arts Barre, VT - January 16 - February 24, 2007
two prints in the ARTHOP
- Burlington, VT - September 2007
Manufactured
Dissent Art Collective
4 October 2007 Galerie Depardieu Nice, France
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Thursday
19th February, 2009
Galerie Depardieu
DEAD & WOUNDED
(MOCKUP IN SKETCHUP
&)
Nice, France
SOME BACKGROUND TO "THE HOMELAND SECURITY COLLECTION"
Activist
artist/photographer/filmmaker/animator John Douglas (see article on
Da Speech)
is at it again! Isolationism, vulnerability, cold steel, human flesh,
and latent violence seethe in “Homeland Security” -- no,
it isn’t a film or video, it’s the latest provocative series
of photographs from the veteran Charlotte multi-media creator. Sporting
an M16 and nothing else, Douglas appears in this series of images as
a literal “one-man army” -- duplicated photographically
and armed to the teeth in a procession of tableaus that confront the
power and impotence of firepower. Sans any associative figures but male
replicas of himself, supplanting the male organ in almost every pose
with M16s (or flags), “Home Security” offers a sardonic
dissection of America’s current pre-emptive ‘go it alone’
military foreign policies and a delirious portrait of primal ‘citizen
soldiers’ in native habitats (trailors, tracks, flag-draped coffins,
and -- most chilling of all -- seated stoically around a TV set in the
darkness, lit only by its cyclopean light). It’s brilliant, funny,
unnerving, confrontational, disturbing stuff; you haven’t lived
‘til you’ve seen a small platoon of nude, armed, and dangerous
Douglas clones poised for action. Seven
Days offered a generous spread on “Homeland Security”
in its June 30-July issue (pp. 24A-26A) - Steve R. Bissette, GREEN MT. CINEMA - Vol.1 |
THE FOLLOWING IMAGES [PAGES 1-6]
ARE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
SERIOUS SECURITY
[undercover]
SERIOUS SECURITY [undercover]
ANIMATED
HOMELAND SECURITY
HOMELAND SECURITY
(animated)
TRAILER SECURITY
BOAT SECURITY (undercover)
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THE USCG BOARDED ME THE DAY FOLLOWING THIS 'SHOOT' SO TO SPEAK
BOAT SECURITY
DAFFODIL SECURITY
WOODSHED SECURITY #1
WOODSHED SECURITY #2
MASSACRE SECURITY
PEONY SECURITY
PEONY SECURITY (COLOR)
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