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Flip It & Reverse It examines the harmful cycles of Black hypervisibility in popular media. The exhibition features a selection of found footage video works from the mid 90s to the present day that sample television, music, journalism, and social media. From MTV’s genre-forming reality TV show, The Real World, to the viral coverage of professional athletes endorsing the Black Lives Matter movement, the exhibition’s pop culture citations reckon with pre and post internet mass spectatorship. Flip It & Reverse It also explores the relationship between emerging technology and racial biases as made apparent through Instagram’s algorithm and facial recognition software. Underpinned by humor and poignancy, Flip It & Reverse It offers windows into the fraught economy of Blackness as a spectacle in visual and digital culture.
Participating artists: Cameron Granger, Brett Kashmere, Elizabeth Mputu, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Martine Syms , Abbey Williams, & XPRZ.
Storm Bria-Rose Bookhard is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. Her practice centers how artists of color and other marginalized practitioners are inscribed within art history and visual culture. She has conducted research for the Getty Research Institute’s (GRI) Expanding the Study of Performance in Women Artists’ Archives initiative and in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection. Her curatorial projects have traversed immersive performance art, diasporic legacies of craft, and time based media.
Storm has held positions across the arts sector including roles at the Getty Research Institute, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, David Zwirner, and Regen Projects. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and her writing has been published by the Archives of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions (AWARE), the Boston Art Review, and Harvard University Press.
Storm holds a BFA in Fine Art and MA in Curatorial Practice and the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California.
VisArts’ Emerging Curator Program pairs an emerging curator with an experienced mentoring curator to produce new exhibitions and related programming.
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