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This densely packed piece reconfigures the iconographic history of western culture as it comes to us through the motion picture media. "Shanghaied," in the old colonialist use of the term, means "stolen, made off with," and, according to Ken Kobland, his film "steals footage, forces it into a ridiculous 'chorus line,' and tries to make a kind of comic encapsulation of the civic sexual passion of frontier, conquering, and nation building." This piece objectifies and recreates our Western history, patching together a performance which, in Kobland's words, traces "a sort of spastic social/sexual Odyssey of Western culture." |
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