The Insufferable Whiteness of Being

Single-channel video, 12:30 runtime, 2018.
In collaboration with Emily Martinez as Anxious to Make.

Description

As crypto-rich investors relocate to Puerto Rico to build a new crypto-utopia called “Sol,” The Insufferable Whiteness of Being considers their utopian vision within the larger historical context of colonialism and exploitation on the island. The video combines text drawn from online, comment-thread arguments about the island’s future with images of Puerto Rico from Western art history, travel and tourism videos, U.S. military training documentation, luxury real estate tours, and post-Hurricane Maria drone footage.

Exhibitions + Screenings

• “Studio Visit: The Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial,” Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. March 3-April 8, 2020.

• “MoneyLab #7: Outside of Finance,” Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 15 Nov 2019.

• “Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice,” Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor, MI. September 20 – November 10, 2019.

• “Eschatological Autopsy: The Act of Seeing the End of the World with One’s Own Eyes,” Vector Festival 2019, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. July 13, 2019.

• “Eternal Boy Playground,” Telematic Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Dec 15 2018 - Feb 2 2019.
  

Press + Publications

KQED Arts | Hyperallergic | Free Radicals | MoneyLab #7

Credits

This work was made possible by a generous grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York, NY.