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Spacecraft

Adventures of the Jungle Heroes

Part 62 of a series of 72, 2004

The work begins with the scrolling text: “The North Korean Military positioned along the demilitarized zone responded to America's preventive air strike  that had just a few minutes earlier destroyed its nuclear facilities..”  The artist duo describes in explicit details the fantasy of the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust -  the final destruction of South Korea.

(62) Destruction of the "National Monument"

Reactionary cliques in the ruling party have maliciously labeled Communist Party members, soldiers of the Liberation Army, and the patriotic fighters who fought for freedom of the motherland and national liberation, as 'Evil.' The 'National Monument' as such reflects the treasonous actions these factions have taken against our country. On August 1975, our Army Core Unit slipped unnoticed into Kuala Lumpur to destroy this structure, to the high acclaim of the general populace.

 

"This is a part of a continuing project by the collective Spacekraft focusing on the (failed?) efforts of the Communist Party of Malaya to provide a political, later militant, counter-balance during the formative years of Malaya's independence from colonial Britain.

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