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NANCY CHUNN: Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear
September 10 - November 12, 2016

I will exhibit my 13 1/2 year, site-specific painting-installation Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear, updating the folk tale of the paranoid fowl. After 9/11, the media went into overdrive, broadcasting every idiotic, innocuous, hilarious, and (only on rare occasions) poignant dangers. In Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine, Professor Barry Glassner referred to this pathology as a "Culture of Fear" that flooded the public with stories about immigrants, welfare mothers, kidnappings, etc. …