Installation with website:
http://www.distributive-justice.com/america


Courtesy ArtsLink Independent Project, program of CEC International Partners, New York, and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Andreja Kuluncic's Distributive Justice: America gives participants an opportunity to explore global perceptions of America within the context of "distributive justice," a concept borrowed from the fields of economics and philosophy that concerns the ways in which a society forms a consensus on the just distribution of wealth. The interactive multimedia installation incorporates an Internet-based game, video interviews, and a printed questionnaire.

The Internet-based game focuses specifically on views of America and is accessible on the computers in the center of the exhibition room or online from anywhere in the world. As they play the game, participants create and juxtapose two views of America: that of Americans and that of non-Americans.

While earlier manifestations of Distributive Justice have focused specifically on economic and ethical questions pertaining to the just distribution of wealth, Distributive Justice: America is concerned with practical rather than theoretical issues. "It is," says Kuluncic, "primarily focused on day-to-day events and actions (or non-actions) including short-term and long-term consequences."

In addition to exploring their own and others' views of America, participants can access and engage interactively with other facets of Kuluncic's ongoing project.

Text by Lawrence Rinder
"The American Effect" Exhibition Curator
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

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