Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear

Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear

Nancy Chunn

Sep 9, 2016 – May 5, 2017

Chunn Chicken Little And The Culture Of Fear Scene 10 Poortown 25 Detail Building Stores

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Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, Scene X: Poortown, 2010-2011

detail: Building / Stores

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I will exhibit my 13 1/2 year, site-specific painting-installation Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, updating the folk tale of the paranoid fowl. After 9/11, the media went into overdrive, broadcasting every idiotic, innocuous, hilarious, and (only on rare occasions) poignant dangers. In Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine, Professor Barry Glassner referred to this pathology as a "Culture of Fear" that flooded the public with stories about immigrants, welfare mothers, kidnappings, etc. Listening to all this crap, and not being Jon Stewart, I decided the only way to maintain any sanity in this age of absurdity was to embark on a baroque, obsessive, labor intensive process that has become as insane as the content.

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Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, Scene III: The Kitchen, 2005-2006

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Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, Scene III: The Kitchen, 2005-2006

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Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, Scene IV: The Bedroom, 2006

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Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, Scene V: The Jail, 2016

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Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, Scene V: The Jail, 2016

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Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, Scene XI: Fox News, 2016

Chunn Chicken Little And The Culture Of Fear Scene 10 Poortown 25 Detail Building Stores

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Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, Scene X: Poor Town, 2010-2011

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Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. The gallery is located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City and exhibits performance, photography, new media, film, painting, drawing and sculpture.