Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance Monahan Torin
Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance Monahan Torin In Crisis Vision, Torin Monahan explores how artists confront the racializing dimensions of contemporary surveillance.…
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Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance Monahan Torin
In Crisis Vision, Torin Monahan explores how artists confront the racializing dimensions of contemporary surveillance. Many artists, Monahan contends, remain invested in frameworks that privilege transparency, universality, and individual responsibility in ways that often occlude racial difference. He focuses on artists ranging from Kai Wiedenhfer, Paolo Cirio, and Hank Willis Thomas to Claudia Rankine and Dread Scott, who engage with what he calls crisis vision--the regimes of racializing surveillance that position black and brown bodies as targets for police and state violence.
Whether fostering a recognition of a shared responsibility and complicity for the violence of crisis vision or critiquing how vulnerable groups are Other artists, however, disrupt crisis vision by confronting white supremacy and destabilizing hierarchies through the performance of opacity.
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