The animated chic of radical cats: The Pinky Show ascending
by Michael Lithgow, Art Threat
AAM 2010 MuseumExpo booth, display cases & ephemera
Type: poster, flier, button
Summary: These are some of the ephemera we made as part of our
participation at the 2010 American Association of Museums Annual Meeting
and MuseumExpo in Los Angeles, California. Trivia question for nerds:
How many future-vehicles can you identify in the poster? Recognize any
of the buildings?
Future Museum Report: Some notes on our time-travel expeditions, 2028-2098
Type: report
Format: PDF file
Summary: Q: Why are Pinky & friends so interested in the future of
museums that they'd be willing to risk their lives to time-travel? A: Two reasons! Because... 1) Museums are veeery important for reproducing the dominant
values and narratives of its host society; AND 2) Among the
institutions that shape our understanding of
past, present, & future, museums enjoy the least critical examination from the
general public. That's why!
Urgyen Badheytsang Interviews Pinky & Bunny
Interview with Pinky & Bunny: Personal experiences and advocating social change in the digital realm
Interviewed by Urgyen Badheytsang; Booklet design and layout by Urgyen Badheytsang.
PS comic : The Shopping Song
Type: digital comic (sing-along-activity)
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PS comic : Protest letter
Type: digital and print comic
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Pinky meets the colonizer
Type: digital image
Summary: This is an image Pinky drew after having an eighteen-month dream about the psychological effects of settler colonialism on settlers.
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Re: Structure, Power, and Agency
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 26 min 37 sec
Summary:
Pinky's insomnia has recently been centered around questions of class
treason: What happens when we do so many things in our lives
'automatically'? What can we really do to make this world better? And
what will we have to give up or risk in order to achieve it? (This video
is part of the Class Treason Stories (excerpts) exhibition.)
FUSE magazine : THE PINKY SHOW : Is Anybody Watching These Guys?
FUSE magazine. Volume 33, number 1, Winter 2010. Cover feature.
Gently, but firmly, poking your brain with a stick: Milena Placentile in conversation with The Pinky Show.
On Native Land : Pinky & Bunny pull 360 pounds of uranium tailings through Petrified Forest National Park
Type: digital image
Summary: From our On Native Land
series. Anyone caught removing even a small piece of fossilized wood
from Petrified Forest National Park will get fined $325. But Pinky &
Bunny aren't stealing souvenirs, they're just spreading deadly
radioactive contamination (okay, that's not real uranium), which must
not be a big deal because the U.S. Government and corporations have been
doing that in Navajo country for decades and no one's punishing them.
On Native Land : Pinky & Bunny are visited by the ghosts of 10,000 slaughtered sheep
Type: digital image
Summary: From our On Native Land series. Here we see lots of
ghosts of Navajo Churro sheep (shot by U.S. Government agents and
soldiers, poisoned water, radioactive contamination, etc.) coming around
during Pinky & Bunny's most recent walk through Dinetah.
On Native Land : stupid tourists i wish you would all get out of here
Type: digital image
Summary: From our On Native Land series. Are sacred sites still
sacred after being transformed into a U.S. "National Park"? Can a
settler state legitimately claim ownership of Native peoples' ancestral
lands in the shadow of genocide? Well perhaps these are interesting
questions but right now Bunny just knows her visit to Mesa Verde is
being ruined because there's just too many tourists all over the place.
How To Repair the World (WeForest video guest narrated by Pinky)
Format: video with audio
Running time: 2 min 59 sec
Produced by: WeForest
Summary: The people at WeForest (WeForest.org) asked Pinky to do a guest voice over for their video. The video was produced by their organization to use at the United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen (a.k.a. COP15, 2009), to help focus attention to the potential benefits of reforestation using permaculture techniques to fight climate change. Please watch Willie Smits' excellent TED Conference presentation (approx. 20 minutes long) for a more detailed explanation.
YouTube People Interview Pinky & Bunny (part 1)
Summary: In July 2009, we posted a video on YouTube asking viewers if they had questions they'd like to ask us. This is just part 1 of our responses (we received a lot of questions)...
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On Native Land : I'M ON UR LAND / MAPPIN UR DEMIZE
Type: digital image
Summary: Among other things, maps are important tools of conquest. They
also often record inconvenient evidence that counter misleading settler
narratives - for example: "The land was vacant; there was no genocide."
From our On Native Land series, this piece was originally shown at the Picturing Politics 2008 exhibition, Arlington Arts Center (VA).
Photographs from Makua Valley
Photographs from Makua Valley, Waianae Coast, Island of Oahu, Hawaii
Type: photographs with captions
Summary: Pinky and I have never been inside Makua Valley so Daisy was
nice enough to take some photos and write a few words for us. Report filed by Daisy, Pinky Show CR01, November 2009.
The Academic Freedom Debate!
Type: mini-zine
Summary: Do we have enough academic freedom? Should we have more? Who benefits? Who gets to decide?
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Class Treason Stories (excerpts)
Type: installation with audio/video
Exhibition
locations: University of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, CANADA, 2009), Toronto
Free Gallery (Toronto, CANADA, 2010), and Bishop's University
(Sherbrooke, Quebec).
13 Things I Learned at Kahoolawe
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 7 min 5 sec
Summary: Kahoolawe may be one of the world's most dangerous places. After 50 years of bombardment by the U.S. military, the island remains littered with unexploded ordinance. So why would Pinky & Bunny want to go there?
Do you have anything you want to ask Pinky or Bunny? (video)
Format: video with audio
Running time: approx. 1 min 43 sec
Summary: Do you have questions you'd like to ask us? This video was originally only posted on YouTube. You can read the interview (our answers to YouTube people's questions) in the Dialogues section of the archives.