jay rechsteiner

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Installation proposal, part of John Wayne is Gay

The Duke Show

The Duke Show, original logo

The proposal takes the form of a fairground shooting gallery. Its intended targets represented groups stereotyped as outsiders or enemies within a particular American nationalist mythology, including Native Americans, communists, Black people and hippies. The selection is critical and deliberately confrontational, exposing the violence within the heroic Western image.

The surviving material documents a proposal and model. It does not establish that a working installation was built or exhibited.

Targets and proposed installation

Drawn shooting targets for The Duke Show
Reference model for shooting-gallery layout
Reference image credited in the original page to Sega / BMI Gaming; not a photograph of a completed installation

The original proposal described a wooden, site-adjustable construction with an air rifle. The imagery is presented here as project documentation, not as a participation instruction.