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Brynn Hatton

Kindler Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Art
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2016
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2003
Address: Hamilton, NY

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Papers by Brynn Hatton

Clear-Hold-Build, 2019

Edited by HEKLER and Shimrit Lee. Philadelphia, PA: Twelve Arts

Strike MoMA Reader, 2022

https://www.strikemoma.org/reader

Journal of Visual Culture, 2018

This article analyzes artistic interpretations of the AK-47 and M16 by two contemporary collectiv... more This article analyzes artistic interpretations of the AK-47 and M16 by two contemporary collectives based in Vietnam, The Propeller Group and Le Brothers (active 2006-present and 2008-present). The American-made M16 and the Soviet-made AK-47 rifles were both mass-produced in the 1950s and popularized during the Cold War, and served as shorthand visual cultural cues signaling political affiliation with either bloc. By returning to these loaded icons of violence and political solidarity, and employing tactics of Third Cinema films and manifestoes of the late 1960s in which gun imagery and metaphors are pervasive, both artist collectives decouple the iconic rifles from their historical entrenchments and open up new spaces for reimagining political kinship in the era of transnationalism by way of globalized capitalism.