Short video essay that looks at how white science fiction filmmakers fill the backgrounds of their futuristic worlds with hollow Asian figures—in the form of video and holographic advertisements—while the main cast (if not the entirety of their fictional universe’s population) is devoid of actual Asian people.
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BECOME THE MONUMENTS THAT CANNOT FALL
A newly commissioned public art project and the first survey exhibition of art collective Related Tactics.
ASIAN FUTURES, WITHOUT ASIANS
Series of projects, presentations, and texts on how white filmmakers envision futures inflected by Asian culture, but devoid of actual Asian people. A visual analysis of 40+ years of American science fiction cinema.
ETERNAL RETURNS
This exhibition is about living with history in the here and now and the distillations we carry into the future. These artists are meticulous researchers, utilizing chemistry, botany, math, religion, politics, and bureaucracy. They explore possibilities, capture turmoil and fallow periods, track displacement and migrations.
A Subjective, Contextual History of Washington, D.C. Pro Basketball
A history of the team and how it intertwines with civic issues, particularly: gun laws and violence, business and labor, real estate and gentrification, race, and class.
POWER FORWARD
The artists in this exhibition draw upon the hidden and political histories of sports to open up analyses of the social world.
A NON-ZERO-SUM GAME
This year-long series of art exhibitions, film programs, discussions, commissioned projects, and other events took place in galleries, cinemas, sports bars, bookstores, and on rooftops from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.
HALF-FANCY, HALF-JUNGLE
An illustrated experimental essay on authenticity, postmemory, appropriation, and racial and ethnic identity (and recent cases in the art world and beyond). KQED described the commissioned chapbook as “finely wrought words.” On view at SFMOMA through Summer 2020.
GOALS
An installation superimposing the goals of six major sports.
EXPO CHICAGO 2014
Videos selected from over 140 galleries of The International Exposition of Modern and Contemporary Art.
ALIEN SHE
This exhibition provides a view into the passion and diversity of the punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl, and highlights how these ideas have broadened, evolved and mutated in the work of contemporary artists.
2011 PITTSBURGH BIENNIAL
These projects demonstrate the strength of collective voices in deciding the future of neighborhoods, cities, nations, and societies, and the importance of intimate conversations and compassionate listening.
WHATEVER IT TAKES: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions
The first major gallery exhibition to present sports fanaticism as a significant form of cultural production, bridging the assumed gap between sports and the arts.
STEELER NATION MAP
This is a new map of the world representing Steeler Nation, where countries that don’t have a fan base for the Pittsburgh NFL team don’t exist.
KEEP IT SLICK: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men
The first major exhibition of the internationally renowned culture-jamming group. Dubbed “the most prescient show of the year” by Paper City and “a timely acknowledgment of the work of […] the great social satirists of our time” by Art Papers.
YOUR TOWN, INC.: Big Box Reuse with Julia Christensen
Photographs and new installation work examine how communities are changing in the shadow of corporate real estate.
Other Exhibitions at Miller Gallery
Other exhibitions, events, residencies organized for Carnegie Mellon’s Miller Gallery, 2008 – 2014.
COME ON: Desire Under the Female Gaze
This exhibition focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity, and pleasure.
SYRACUSE MOUNTAINS
A full-scale graph / “mountain range” mural charting the snowfall in Syracuse over the last half century, and mounds of deicers which “melted” as winter outside progressed and visitors inside took away samples.