Our trash cans are filled with mementos of our daily experiences. What happens to this intricate personal archive once it is picked up and taken away? How much of it will lie forever amidst the irredeemable refuse of the modern landfill? A different perspective on garbage and on abjection itself might finally allow us to embrace questions like these.
WE THE PEOPLE is a flawed realization of the intended purpose of government, allowing us to call into question not only the mechanisms through which it operates but also to critically think about the true intentions of the founding fathers.
"Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death" tasks audiences with witnessing a strategically curated assemblage of a checkered U.S. history of police brutality, promotions of church gospel, distilled expressions of dejection, perseverance for social change, beatific song and dance, and other acts of Black performativity and expressivity in all its awesome variety.
If Slavoj Žižek were to find out I was using his 2002 book, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real," to prove that aliens exist peacefully, he would view my efforts as my own passion for the Real.
In “Who Is America?” Baron Cohen’s goal is no longer to illuminate the fact that people have racist, xenophobic thoughts, but to see just how far those views will go and the horrible things they will guide them to do.
In summer 2020, I witnessed the eerie formation of a narrative: the sensationalized focus on the police officer that little matched the masses’ sentiments regarding prisons. There was lots of “ACAB!” and little “Prisons are obsolete.”
