2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptation
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print this pageMy Jesse James Adventure
Friday, October 14 - 11:00AM to 11:45AM
My talk will focus on my five-year investigation into my ancestor--the outlaw Jesse James. Exploring parallels between past and present, the project includes a 22-channel video installation, solar plate etchings, photographs of DNA hair offerings at each site, a spaghetti western inspired musical score composed by Dallin B. Peacock and an original audio guide of excerpted newspaper articles (sensationalized yellow journalism of the time) of the James Gang exploits. The work examines fake news, gun violence, criminal celebrity, the fascination with DNA networks, and fact vs. fiction, questioning how one reconciles ancestral legacy filled with violence, crime and social injustice.
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Colette Copeland
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