The truck defines the collection, according to Bob Manchester, who toured the truck show circuit with Mr. Guerrera and wrote most of the museum's placard texts.
"No compromise, no submission, only Jalili!" they shouted, while waving a handwritten placard with the text: "Negotiating with Satan is against the Koran".
Ruscha, who was on vacation in Jamaica, created a three-minute tribute in the form of a parody of Bob Dylan's legendary music video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues" with placards featuring Weiner text pieces like "stars don't stand still in the sky" and "water in milk exists".
While essentially wordless, via signs and placards the graphics incorporate far more text into the imagery than in earlier works.
His terse flat sentences, jumpy chapters, interleaved placards, collages of stray texts and messages, and nervous grim refrains like "So it goes" and (in "Slapstick") "Hi ho" are a new way of stacking pain, as his fictional ice-nine is a new way of stacking the molecules of water.
To make the point, Xamara, who'd been texting while Ana and I spoke, pulled out the placard they were carrying with them, which read, "Tips, please".
One thing I quickly recognized was one of the placards they hang around their parties that display their rules: don't smoke, text, or take photos on the dancefloor.
The translators do not know one another and both prepared independent forward translations for project text documents, including the informed consent document, photograph permission form, information sheet, human placard, and semi-structured interview guides.
It was in the placards, the slogans, the banners and the antics; it was passed along through the Internet, text messaging and even local newspapers.
