End of the Nation State

These clock radios were tuned to a small pirate FM transmitter that broadcast 24 hour a day Salsa music. The radios were sequenced through an X-10 system so the sound would move from one radio to the next, with the radios turning themselves off and on automatically.

These replica bomblets, (explosive charges replaced with dirt) had triggering mechanisms made of a match attached to a mouse trap and a strip of sand paper.

These fake wooden turtles are cardboard mock-ups of the actual wooden turtles once used by the Cuna Indians in Panama who caught real sea turtles with them, when they tried to mate with their wooden simulacra.

Light boxes showing members of Peru's 'Shining Path' movement and the Baader-Meinhof group.

This was part of an ongoing investigation into the apparent charisma of terrorism and why certain people get swept up by these movements.

End of Nation State overall installation shot. Banff Centre for the Arts, 1995.