A Splendid Little War

2-channel outdoor projection on the historic Battleship Olympia

A Splendid Little War / Still Savages comprises a pair of large-scale projections on the hull of the Cruiser Olympia, a flagship for the US in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars around the turn of the 20th Century. Graphically framed by the words of John Hay (U.S. Secretary of State during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars) and Thomas Edison, who produced some of the very first documentation of war in motion-pictures in Cuba and the Philippines. These ghostly moving-images, projected onto the Olympia and considered in our historical moment, point towards a uniquely American obsession with military power that persists to this day.













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