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the art project "A Space War Monument" Dani Ploeger will
give a presentation on his new work A Space War Monument, a
land art performance commissioned by the Kuwait National
Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale on occasion of
the 30th anniversary of the end of the Persian Gulf War
(1990-91). At this online event, organized by Art Claims
Impulse, he will share some insights on the background,
context and realization of the work in the Kuwaiti desert.<br>
The Gulf War has become broadly known as ‘The First Space
War’ because of the prominent use of GPS-technology, ‘smart
bombs’, stealth aircraft and other advanced technologies by
the US military and their allies. However, philosopher Jean
Baudrillard has suggested that this understanding of the war
as a clean, high-tech affair has been constructed through
media representations. Hardly anybody knows what really
happened on the battlefield in the Kuwaiti desert, because
news reports almost exclusively originated from heavily
controlled and redacted press sources embedded with the US
military. For this reason, he provocatively stated that ‘the
Gulf War has not taken place.’<br>
In this context, A Space War Monument connects the Gulf
War’s high-tech dimension to a low-tech aspect of the
conflict – the use of bulldozers as assault weapons by the
US military – which have remained largely unacknowledged in
official narratives. Ploeger commissioned a GPS-controlled
bulldozer to erase remaining traces of the war in the
Kuwaiti desert. This civilian machine brings together high-
and low-tech aspects of the Gulf War, while drawing
attention to the cross-contamination of military and
civilian technological innovation: After the Gulf War, the
bulldozer was the first construction vehicle that was
equipped with GPS technology.<br>
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