This article analyzes artistic interpretations of the AK-47 and M16 by two contemporary collectives based in Vietnam, The Propeller Group and Le Brothers (active 2006-present and 2008-present). The American-made M16 and the Soviet-made AK-47 rifles were both mass-produced in the 1950s and popularized during the Cold War, and served as shorthand visual cultural cues signaling political affiliation with either bloc. By returning to these loaded icons of violence and political solidarity, and employing tactics of Third Cinema films and manifestoes of the late 1960s in which gun imagery and metaphors are pervasive, both artist collectives decouple the iconic rifles from their historical entrenchments and open up new spaces for reimagining political kinship in the era of transnationalism by way of globalized capitalism.

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稳住你的枪臂以保持花朵的颜色：螺旋桨集团和乐兄弟

本文分析了位于越南的两个当代团体 The Propeller Group 和 Le Brothers（活跃于 2006 年至今和 2008 年至今）对 AK-47 和 M16 的艺术诠释。美国制造的 M16 和苏联制造的 AK-47 步枪都在 1950 年代大规模生产并在冷战期间普及，并作为速记视觉文化线索，表明与任一集团的政治联系。通过回归这些充满暴力和政治团结的象征，并运用第三电影院电影和 1960 年代后期枪支图像和隐喻无处不在的宣言的策略，两个艺术家集体都将标志性的步枪与其历史壁垒脱钩，并开辟了新的空间通过全球化资本主义重新构想跨国主义时代的政治亲属关系。