Backdrop Project – potential chapters

Go For Broke

Restaging key barracks scene from Go For Broke. Framework of barracks linking US Army Barracks with Japanese-American concentration camps built by US Army. The two drops placed in their original positions at either end. Reuniting other drops or replacing with historical barracks shots from camps. Rereading of army/camps for the invisible queerness.

Carbine Williams

Potential themes: incarceration; gun manufacturing; guns and manhood; anti-government myth making; white American anti-heroes

Self Control

Potential artist: Jackie Beat
Performance of ‘Self Control’ the 1984 Ital0-Disco track by Raf, covered by Laura Brannigan. Using a twin pair of backdrops, one painted for night, the other painted for day.

Before Los Angeles

Potential Artist: Def Sound
Possible themes: the land before LA; occupation of unceded lands; image making mythology
Backings: installed in a large circle, shooting on a turntable, circle dolly tracks

Potential Pairs and others