Type: image archive with explanatory captions
Summary: We’ve been designing t-shirts from almost the very beginning of this project. It’s fun - or sometimes serious - to see your ideas or words on people.
Filtering by Author: Drittens Cat
Haunani-Kay Trask : We are not happy Natives : education and decolonization in Hawaiʻi (2001)
Type: an interview with Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask
Summary: This conversation with Dr. Trask took place in 2001 and focuses on how she uses education as a process for decolonzation and nation-building. The video is presented in 23 short parts, with helpful notes and supplemental materials.
What is Settler Colonialism? : Pinky interviews Dr. Patrick Wolfe
Type: a Q&A session with Dr. Patrick Wolfe
Summary: Historian Dr. Patrick Wolfe answers Pinky's questions about what settler colonialism is, and why people (especially settlers!) should learn about it.
Greetings, American university student!
Type: mini-zine
Summary: This tiny book-like thing is easy to print, fold, and leave around campus for students to find.
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A happy sound
Type: digital comic
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200 rains?
Type: digital comic
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What's the context?
Type: digital comic
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I think it's raining
Type: digital comic
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100 Years of Planetary Caregiving
The Pinky Show cats have launched a 100 year project to try to avoid killing the planet we're all living on. No one has joined in yet.
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Where's the old PINKY SHOW?
Format: video with audio
Running time: 45 sec
Summary: This is just a very short announcement for the YouTube people.
On Native Land : Mail Art Story : Death-ball Visits Art Gallery, or, When is the logic of faraway death not faraway enough?
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.
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War Injuries Cat Toys project : Dec 2014 progress report
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.
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Pinky interviews Drittens
Type: a Q&A session with Drittens
Summary: Pinky just wants to introduce everybody to Drittens. He’s our “newest” Pinky Show cat, but actually he's been here since he was a kitten.
This Cat World Dismantled : 26 things we learned doing The Pinky Show
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).
PS comic : Schools and Prisons
Type: digital and print comic
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Dreams & Nightmares of Empire : Biological Specimens from The Pinky Show collection
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?
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i am ready for love at any moment : house
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
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)
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
Type: crocheted toy
Height: 15 inches
Materials: bulky yarn (cover) and wool roving (stuffing)