This is only a short extract, the full conversation is available in the fifth issue of Annual Magazine. Shop it here!

Chris Wiley: Your most recent works constitute something of a shift in your thematic focus, away from the history of French colonialism and the American war in Vietnam, particularly as they related to you and your family, towards work that appears to be related to the notion of American freedom. Specifically, I am thinking of the works We the People (detail), 2011-13, your ongoing, deconstructed reproduction of the Statue of Liberty, your gilded cardboard Budweiser box This Bud’s for You (2012), and part of your installation, JULY, IV, MDCCLXXVI (2011) pairs the actual typewriter that Ted Kaczynski used to write his anti-technology manifesto Industrial Society and Its(…) — MORE