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Dawn Pankonien
Into political economy. Not into brushing my hair. Sometimes at institutes of art and design in the US. Mostly in Mexico City

Appropriation (a poem)

Nave Launch, Roma Norte, CDMX

Recurated, restaged, ready-made
representation. 
 
Is interaction expected in 
contemporary art?
 
Manifested, replicated, revelatory,
delusion.
 
Was pre-industrialized nature similarly
spiritual?
 
Geonarratives of afilial―
Touristic everymen in―
Religio-historic geography as is.
 
Nothing says presumed fecundity like
presumed fecundity.
 
Transition to architectural antidotes, to designer 
fixes:

KusKus teak antiques, Venetian lanterns, Orientalized 
bay windows.
 
Each exotic, controlled, other, at home away from home. Her work is a 
pilgrimage.
 
Travel while reclining, snow splashing. Her work is a 
pilgrimage: 
 
Of World’s Fairs, Tiffany interiors.
Of tastemaking and hegemony.

*Everything here also appeared in the Minneapolis Art Historians Colloquium of 2016 (in my head or in someone’s talk)