Proyecto John Rambo

John Rambo Project (USA, 2016) is the result of a collaboration between Núria Güell and Levi Orta, a project where the two artists’ viewpoints collide. Based on Peter MacDonald’s film, Rambo III, Güell and Orta find two incarnations of Rambo in the same military conflict: Mike Prysner and Ayyub Faleh al-Rubaie, a hero and an antihero.

The presentation of these exercises in the artistic space generates a critical analysis. An important part of John Rambo Project are the plastic representations that Prysner’s talk inspires in the students. The results show the particular ways in which teenagers channel information and set the great multiplicity of interpretations that ideological narratives are capable of producing. Through creation, and reviewing what they were told, the students comprehended what were their emancipatory chances and activated their critical potential. Thus, John Rambo Project establishes a dialectic between narration and reception, discourse and affiliation.