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. Asking myself the question, what would the site of repatriation be for found Americana, the objects traveled to Chicago where I began to study Walt Disney’s Birthplace in the Hermosa neighborhood. An application for the home to receive landmark status in 2013 begins by saying “Mickey Mouse was born in a small cottage on the Northwest Side of Chicago, as was Donald Duck, Goofy, and a multitude of imaginary characters whose names and images are familiar around the world.” Walt Disney was born in Chicago when his father relocated the family their as he was hired to assist in the construction of the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The play was restaged and reshaped to engage critically with this site and the associated legacy of spectacle–both the Disney Theme Parks and the Chicago Columbian Exposition –the resulting film offers a series of unspectacular gestures alluding to the consequences of American imperialism.