Cloud of Whiteness

This interactive installation was conceived as a microcosm of our current and trans-historical political climate. As such, it is a hostile space.

Construction materials – brick, canvas, rope, and repurposed motors – are layered against the seemingly invisible technologies of digital surveillance. Custom software and physical computing activate a handmade cradle dropping theatrical snow. Viewers engage the work by building or deconstructing brick structures. Conversations around acculturation, assimilation, notions of “passing”, and other aspects of conceptual whiteness unfold through performances, viewer interactions, and public forums.

The project was initially commissioned for SPACES’ First 100+ Days exhibition, with iterations presented in the Ammerman Center Biennial Symposium on Arts + Technology, Current Sessions Performance Series, and produced by Chicago DanceMakers Forum at the Chicago Cultural Center. See more on that iteration, Chimeric Whiteness, Or Nightmares Passing as Normal.