Performance has always been essential as a means of survival to participate in the fiction of America.
Aria Dean
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An Artist Investigates the Effects of Technological Obsolescence
On Earth Day, Julia Christensen discusses the concept of “upgrade culture” and how it has impacted our daily lives.
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Aria Dean Searches for an “Ontology of Blackness”
In Dean’s works, we shuttle between experiences as personally lived and the sweeping generalizations of the media and historical modernism.
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A Playboy Bunny Navigates the Politics of Dystopia
In a video and performance, artist Monet Clark uses the character of a Playboy Bunny to navigate the Anthropocene, a situation of political pitfalls and environmental catastrophe.
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An Artist Describes the Apocalypse According to Busta Rhymes
Aria Dean’s upcoming lecture at Machine Project, “Busta Rhymes at the End of the World,” will focus on apocalyptic themes in the rapper’s oeuvre.