Career Day within Command & Control, 2009. Live performance, 52 mins.
11th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
Career Day within Command & Control, 2009. Live performance, 52 mins. 11th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
Career Day within Command & Control, 2009. Live performance, 52 mins. 11th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
Within their installation Command & Control, Raskin performed as Jimbo, an Army Corps of Engineers officer who explained the scope of the Titan Missile Program and his participation in the decommissioning of the fifty-four missile silos scattered across the United States. The installation itself — a replica of a Titan silo built from cardboard and construction paper — transformed the arsenal into a child's craft-project scale, a monument to military infrastructure remade in the humblest of materials. The performance was staged as Career Day — the moment when children bring their parents to school to discuss their professions — allowing Raskin to highlight the site of the installation, the Feriköy Greek School in Istanbul, casting the attendees seated at desks as schoolchildren. The cardboard silo and the schoolroom thus merged: a decommissioned weapon system taught as show-and-tell.