On Native Land : Mail Art Story : Death-ball Visits Art Gallery, or, When is the logic of faraway death not faraway enough?

Added on January 16, 2015 by Drittens Cat.

Materials: a large silk lantern, paint, a sacred valley in an occupied nation, a camera, rope, a ladder, a long metal rod, one large home-made corrugated plastic mailing envelope, stamps.

Type: installation + mail art.

In August 2014 The Pinky Show was invited to participate in a mail art exhibition and was told by the event organizers, "You can send anything... You can send rocks if you want." Not interested in sending rocks, we decided to send them a large death ball instead, along with a couple of post cards with an explanation of where our ball comes from and what it represents.

War Injuries Cat Toys project : Dec 2014 progress report

Added on January 13, 2015 by Drittens Cat.

Type: crocheted toys
Materials: bulky yarn (cover) and wool roving (stuffing)

Just a mini-report on the "progress" of Bunny's epic cat toy project, now taken up by Pinky.

Pinky interviews Theoretical Cat

Added on January 12, 2015 by Drittens Cat.

Type: a Q&A session with Theoretical
Summary: Pinky just wants to introduce everybody to TC, our newest Pinky Show cat, but actually he's been here a long time.

This Cat World Dismantled : 26 things we learned doing The Pinky Show

Added on January 1, 2014 by Drittens Cat.

Type: zine
Format: physical zine and digital e-zine (PDF)
Summary: A small 8-page zine about how Pinky & Bunny met and some of the things they learned as they lived-worked together. Created as our entry for the book Truth is concrete : a handbook for artistic strategies in real politics (Sternberg Press, 2014).

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Dreams & Nightmares of Empire : Biological Specimens from The Pinky Show collection

Added on May 30, 2013 by Drittens Cat.

Materials: crocheted octopus (wool), specimen jar, formaldehyde

Type: poster, 20x30 inches

Summary: We like illustrated thought-experiments. For example, here we have a baby octopus dead in a specimen jar, collected off the south shore of Hawaii in 1893 before it had a chance to grow up to be an adult imperial animal. What kind of world would we be living in now had the U.S. not chosen Empire as its future, way back when at the end of the 19th century? What kind of different thoughts and actions would have been necessary to avert the catastrophes brought on by the imperial clashes of the 20th century? What preventable future disasters are we facing right now? And what should we be doing about them?

i am ready for love at any moment : house

Added on January 26, 2013 by Drittens Cat.

This is another image from our i am ready series. I remember once Bunny told me, "This is not an antidote to my death image. They are complimentary."

i am ready for death at any moment : wood

Added on January 25, 2013 by Drittens Cat.

This image is part of a series that we made back in January 2010, based on visions Bunny was having at the time. This is shortly after Bunny started to be very sick.

On Native Land : at the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada (2007)

Added on October 13, 2012 by Drittens Cat.

We first visited the Smithsonian's Atomic Testing Museum in 2007. We hated it. The following images represent our cat-sized response to the institution as a whole, and also a certain exhibit of photographs in the main gallery in particular.

War Deaths, Traumas, and Other Misc. Injuries cat toys

Added on September 21, 2012 by Drittens Cat.

Type: crocheted toy
Height: 15 inches
Materials: bulky yarn (cover) and wool roving (stuffing)

This stuffed cat (number 001) is part of an unfinished series of 150+ toys that Bunny was working on when she died in January 2013. It was meant as a three-dimensional extension of our poster project of the same name.

MITTENS No001 re: ending the Iraq War, restoring our economy

Added on May 1, 2012 by PS Cat02.

Format: video with audio
running time: 1 min 49 sec
summary: While Pinky is busy taking care of wheelchair lady, Bunny built MITTENS so you can have more regular cat-analysis of whatever. Here MITTENS talks about: ending the Iraq War, restoring the economy.

The Desert is Quiet

Added on October 4, 2011 by PS Cat02.

Format: video with audio
Running time: 1 min 50 sec
Summary: This is a very short video about being or not being quiet.

Despite All Appearances, Every Moment Is Unique

Added on September 3, 2011 by Drittens Cat.

Type: image macro
Format: animated GIF
Summary: This is a picture of Pinky standing around in the Nevada desert. For maximum effect please stare at this picture for at least an hour. Or a couple of minutes, if an hour seems too long.

Seven Scenes From Work and Life

Added on August 31, 2011 by Drittens Cat.

Type: booklet
Format: PDF file
Summary: Pinky & Bunny are trying to make their work into their life and their life into their work. Created for submission to the Grand Domestic Revolution project.

Figure 1. War Deaths, Traumas, and Other Misc. Injuries (two versions)

Added on June 14, 2011 by Drittens Cat.

Type: diagramFormat: digital image
Summary: The image that most often comes to mind when someone says "casualty of war" is usually that of a soldier shot by another soldier from an opposing army. In reality, over the past half-century or so, victims of wars and other violent conflicts have become increasingly civilian (and often disproportionately women and children). We present here two different versions of our diagram for your consideration - one visually explicit, one not - for a variety of learning situations and audiences.

Warning: This image contains images that may disturb some viewers.

Buttons: We Remember

Added on June 9, 2011 by Drittens Cat.

Type: ongoing button series
Summary: We made these buttons for our friends La Lleca, who work with prisoners in Mexico City. (Our friend Teacup delivered them for us when she went to visit recently.) Each button has a tiny picture of Pinky with her giant flag and a place/date that we burn into our memory.

TV News: SO I HERD U LIEK... (new version)

Added on May 29, 2011 by Drittens Cat.

Type: image macro
Summary: This is Bunny in a spiffy suit (ugly tie though) making believe she works at Fox News. If you are not into this sort of thing perhaps you will prefer the old version?

TV News: SO I HERD U LIEK... (old version)

Added on May 24, 2011 by Drittens Cat.

Type: image macro
Summary: Here we have a picture of a very serious-looking Bunny wearing a replica of one of Walter Cronkite's suits and it looks like she "borrowed" Edward R. Murrow's favorite microphone too. If you are not impressed perhaps you will like the new version better?

PS comic : I want to quit school 03

Added on May 2, 2011 by Drittens Cat.

Type: digital and print comic

PS comic : I want to quit school 02

Added on April 29, 2011 by Drittens Cat.

Type: digital and print comic