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Reagan and His Game

Reagan and His Game

W 58.00cm x H 58.00cm x D 20.00cm

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  • About this Reagan and His Game

    Detail

    Medium

    Sculpture (Art object/ Ornament)

    Edition

    Original Artwork

    Year

    2021

    Sign

    Unsigned

    Frame

    Unframed

    Description

    Every president since my birth has a game in this series. The pieces combines the text from their inaugural speech with a board game that symbolizes their presidency.

    Ronald Reagan had an incredibly full presidency. In his first term, he survived an assassination attempt, spurred the War on Drugs, invaded Grenada, and fought public-sector labor unions. His supply-side economic policies “Reaganomics” advocated tax reduction, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending on social welfare, while dramatically increasing military spending. In March 1983, Reagan introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a defense project that would have used a combination of advanced ground- and space-based systems such as X-rays and lasers to protect the United States from attack by nuclear missiles. Even today, it sounds like far-fetched futuristic fantasy. Despite earning the moniker “Star Wars” due to widespread disbelief in the program's scientific feasibility, Regan full-heartedly believed that this defense shield would render a nuclear attack on the United States impossible. The Soviets felt that the SDI represented a ratcheting up of Cold War tensions; leader Yuri Andropov said it would put "the entire world in jeopardy.” In 1987, the Strategic Defense Initiative released a study suggesting that they would need ten more years of research to determine if the SDI was even possible, and their funding was cut. The program was eventually scrapped by President Clinton. Ironically, the SDI probably did cause the end of the Cold War because the Soviets increased spending on nuclear arms so dramatically, that it crippled the economy of the Soviet Union, causing it’s collapse in 1991. This is exactly why Star Wars: Escape from the Death Star, the board game, is a perfect analogy for Regan’s presidency. The game has Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo and Chewbacca trapped in the Death Star Trash Compactor and the goal is to help them escape to the freedom of the Rebel Base.

  • About this artist

    Clint Imboden

    Clint Imboden

    United States of America

    Concept

    Clint Imboden
    Artist Statement

    Association arises from material, particularly material with preexisting contexts. When working in found objects the manipulation of context becomes the true medium. Found-object art is contradictory, the discarded becoming precious, and it is through this contradiction, the implied “but”, that rhetoric is formed.

    My work examines the way these inherited contexts are utilized socially and politically to construct the world we inhabit. My interest in both language and sociopolitical topics stem from a lifetime of working in community mental health, where decades of up close and personal experience led to pointed critique of the systems created to moderate, regulate, and maintain society.

    I visit flea markets and estate sales almost daily, searching for objects that draw me in: old shoes, dusty rolling pins, rusty shovels, and other cast-offs. Through alteration, manipulation, and multiplication, these neglected items are transformed into sculptures and installations that interrogate and deconstruct unseen social truths.

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