Outside of Circle Elephant Gallery Hollywood Blvd, LA • 9/21/01
photo by Marc Landes

A recent email from Kat:

"I have been repeatedly approached to perform my work "American Complacency"en mass at a public space. I was delivered on a military stretcher covered with a shroud, gagged with an american flag to a side walk in Hollywood. This work sited american complacency, complicity of american political and militaristic interventions abroad as one of the many reasons for the attacks on 9/11.

I am horrified by america's response of bombing afghanistan.

Please assist in the planning and execution of this larger public action/performance of this work, perhaps this time as a processional of "corpses" on stretchers carried through a public space, in conjunction with observers passing out a listing of american military interventions in the middle east.

This action will be held as soon as it can be arranged.

most sincerely,

kat skraba

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Story on Performance
Friday, Sept. 21st, 2001 8:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Near the Ford Fairline Van parked outside of Circle Elephant Gallery 4634 Hollywood Blvd. LA, CA 90027 across from Wacko on Hollywood between Vermont and Hillhurst

In conjunction with the "Gas, Grass, or Ass: The Van Show" and the East Side Art Crawl, this one night only performance by Kat Skraba, and other accomplices will be a public action on Hollywood Blvd., outside of Steve Schmidt's 1963 FORD Fairline Van.

Skraba will be delivered on a military stretcher, veiled in a translucent shroud covering her body, revealing the fact she is bound and gagged by the american flag.

Kat Skraba in "American Complacency", Hollywood, LA
photo by Marc Landes

In light of recent national tragedies and decades of heinous international relations on the part of the american government, Skraba directly critique's American compliance and complacency as one of the many causes of recent disasters.

Skraba also calls for an end or the "death" of american passivity towards victimization of nations and cultures abroad.

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