Cowboyträume is an object play performed once in a driveway in Karlsruhe, Germany and once for camera at Walt Disney’s Birthplace at 2156 N Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood, filmed by Yejo Zheng.
A troupe of objects wreaking USA were collected from a secondhand shop in Karlsruhe, Germany—Mickey Mouse this and that, a German country album about the American West, an animatronic plastic whinnying horse...to name a few.
The objects traveled to Chicago where the play was restaged and reshaped to engage critically with the site and the associated legacy of spectacle–both the Disney Theme Parks and the Chicago Columbian Exposition that brought Walt Disney’s father to Chicago–the resulting film offers a series of unspectacular gestures alluding to the consequences of American imperialism.
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scene from driveway performance in Karlsruhe, Germany at the Free Port Purgatory
