Protesting Cartography: Places the United States has Bombed

Author: Slavick, Elin O'Hara

Source: Cultural Politics: an International Journal, Volume 2, Number 2, July 2006 , pp. 245-254(10)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

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Abstract:

Protesting Cartography: Places the United States has Bombed is a series of protest drawings of US military interventions. Utilizing surveillance imagery, military websites such as the US Department of Defense battle plans, aerial photography, mass media, and maps, each drawing is based on a rendering of a place, almost always viewed from the air, which has been targeted by US bombers. I choose to make these drawings by hand rather than to employ photographic or other mechanical means in the hope that people will take their time with them.

This project is an attempt to provide: a comprehensive and more humane acknowledgement of war; a revelation and analysis of our own complicity and passive acceptance of things as they are; different and multiple ways to access, interpret, and act on the magnitude of war and its aftermath; the truth; an uncovering of covert operations; and a remembrance of the dead for the living.

Document Type: Case report

DOI: 10.2752/174321906778054592

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