This webpage was made for curator Dr. Linda Komaroff as part of the acquisition process at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
The following 8 items from the installation were acquired by the museum as a gift of the artists.
The Cat and the Coup, Where's Waldo edition, 2012,
Archival Injet Prints
The Cat and the Coup is an eccentric historiography of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Iranian coup.
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The Cat and the Coup, Where's Waldo edition, 2012,
Archival Injet, Printer's Proofs
Archival Injet, Printer's Proofs
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| 1. January 1962 - March 1967 |
Image size: ~27" x 40"; Paper size: 32.5" x 44"; Frame size: 34.5" x 46.5"
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| 2. Auugust - November, 1953 |
Image size: ~54" x 40"; Paper size: 60" x 44"; Frame size: 62" x 46.5"
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| 3. October 1951 - April 1953 |
Image size: 20.5" x 40"; Paper size: 28" x 44"; Frame size: 32" x 46.5"
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| 4. March - May, 1951 |
Image size: 34" x 40"; Paper size: 42" x 44"; Frame size: 44" x 46.5"
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| 5. March 1951 - March 1967 |
Image size: 60" x 18"; Paper size: 68" x 24"; Frame size: 70" x 27"
The full image is designed to fold like an accordion into a 5 page book.
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| 6. the Cat |
In the print edition of The Cat and the Coup, the Cat is represented by over-sized magnifying glass, covered in mink fur* and with an articulating tale.
* The fur was recycled from coat fragments purchased on eBay.
All prints are adhered to acid-free foam core, sit behind museum Plexiglas,
and are mounted in reinforced white frames (2" deep x 1.5" wide.)
These prints were created at Anderson Ranch Arts Center during a 3 month residency.
All prints are adhered to acid-free foam core, sit behind museum Plexiglas,
and are mounted in reinforced white frames (2" deep x 1.5" wide.)
These prints were created at Anderson Ranch Arts Center during a 3 month residency.
7. The Cat and the Coup, 2011
Interactive Non-fiction (a.k.a. Documentary Video Game)
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| Title Screen |
8. Full walk-through by expert player; HD, 9 minutes
Abridged walk-through; 5 minutes
The interactive version of The Cat and the Coup comes installed on a 24" white iMac,
generously donated by the USC School of Cinematic Arts' hardware recycling program.
The interactive version of The Cat and the Coup comes installed on a 24" white iMac,
generously donated by the USC School of Cinematic Arts' hardware recycling program.
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The project was started in 2007 with a seedling grant by The Advancing Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences at USC. The Beta version of the game was released in 2011. In 2018, The Cat and the Coup was remastered in 4K and ported to the Sony PlayStation 4 console. It costs $2 to download.This new version is available for free on Steam and Itch.io Please visit our website for more information, including full credits, sources, reviews, essays, awards, and to download the game for free for PC and Mac.
