Craft in America

Nicholas Galanin on "A Supple Plunder"
Artist Nicholas Galanin on his work, A Supple Plunder. Bonus video from the STORYTELLERS episode.
TRANSCRIPT
A Supple Plunder there's a story of Russian sailors tying 12 Unangan men together and
testing their firearms to see how many would drop with one shot nine Unangan men died.
This work creates nine busts for those men but it's created out of ballistic
gel which is a material used to measure and mimic human flesh when ballistics are fired through it
so these were fired through and on the ninth is where the bullet sits
You know you talk about monuments and statues it's
a version of that I suppose it's an anti- anti-monument of sorts.