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Tag: Projects
Walker Art Center: Peggy Ahwesh & Astria Suparak
“Peggy Ahwesh and Astria Suparak offer inventive perspectives of Western influences on Asian cinema and and Asian influences on Western cinema.” Two-week run at The Walker.
MoMA: An Evening with Astria Suparak
Two-week run of “Asian futures, without Asians” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Sympathetic White Robots
An installation that “compiles stills from films that marshal empathy for AI agents who are coded as white and humanized through their association with whiteness […] Suparak’s media archaeology interrogates imaginaries of AI”
Tropicollage
Looping video that collages footage from 30 years of futuristic sci-fi movies and television shows that employ a fetishized tropics trope.
Why are they so afraid of the lotus? Book
Newly commissioned texts and an edited selection, taking the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha as its point of departure and driven by the question “What are we learning from artists today?” Published by the Wattis Institute & Sternberg Press, distributed by MIT Press.
Asian futures, without Asians presentation (online version)
Part critical analysis, part reflective essay and sprinkled throughout with humor, justified anger, and informative morsels, this illustrated presentation examines 60 years of American science fiction cinema through the lens of Asian appropriation and whitewashing.
Helmet to Helmet
A collage of the Philippine salakót; how it was worn by Filipinos and Spaniards in the occupying Spanish army; then adapted into the pith helmet, since deployed by every white colonial power.
Seedy Space Ports and Colony Planets: Asian Conical Hats in Cinematic Dystopias
A visual essay and collage on the history and (sci-fi) future of the ancient Asian technology, the conical hat.
ASIANS HAVE BEEN HERE LONGER THAN COWBOYS
Billboard created for For Freedoms by Stop DiscriminAsian.
Virtually Asian
A short video essay that looks at how white science fiction filmmakers fill the backgrounds of their futuristic worlds with hollow Asian figures while the main cast (if not the entirety of their fictional universe’s population) is devoid of actual Asian people.
MATCHING MINORITIES//DOUBTFUL DOUBLES
“This is a pretty interesting experiment in real-time […] It’s heartening to see such a keen and engaged audience. Lee, Suparak, and Delos Reyes have set up a really successful platform for exchange.” – Hyperallergic
Asian Futures series
Series of projects, performances, and texts on how white filmmakers envision futures inflected by Asian culture, but devoid of significant Asian people. A visual analysis of 60 years of mainstream science-fiction cinema.
WILD PARROT PLAYGROUND
A giant playground for the feral parrots that live in cities.
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.
Sports Music
A playlist of official and adopted team theme songs, rapping by professional athletes, music made for sports films, and sports-themed pop songs from the past six decades. Musical styles range from choral groups with orchestras, rousing anthems, and advertising jingles, to disco, soul, rock, hip hop, pop, and R&B.
A Selective Guide to Sports in Experimental Media
A cross-sectional overview of the various ways that sports have been treated in artists’ film and video, experimental documentary, and media-based installation throughout history.
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.
Astria Suparak 