Don’t Boil Your Phone In Coca-Cola
American Artist
LABOR, México City
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- Title
- Don’t Boil Your Phone In Coca-Cola
- Gallery
- LABOR, México City
- Year
- 2018
- Duration
- 5 min 27 s
This is a parody of a Youtube series where a man submits brand new smartphones into precarious circumstances, such as boiling a phone in coke, or placing it in liquid bromine. Rather than an homage to the “move fast and break things” ethos of Silicon Valley, this video, shot on a street in Bushwick (Brooklyn, NYC) with a camping stove, explores how one might use everyday materials to bring the dominant white interface of technology to another, Black, realm. How does one decolonize an interface?
American Artist
- Artist
1989
American Artist (b. 1989, Altadena, CA; lives and works in New York) completed an MFA in Fine Arts at the New School in New York, NY (2015) and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2017). His work has been part of the solo shows: “Black Gooey Universe”, Labor, Mexico City, MX, Mexico (2021); “I’m Blue (If I Was█████I Would Die)” , Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA, United States (2021); “Looted”, Whitney Museum of American Art (online) (2020) ; “My Blue Window”, Queens Museum, Corona, NY, United States (2019); “Dignity Images: Bayview–Hunters Point”, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, United States (2019); “Black Gooey Universe”, HOUSING, Brooklyn, NY, United States (2018), and group exhibitions such as: “INFORMATION (Today)”, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2021) ; “Barring Freedom”, San Jose Museum of Art, CA, United States (2020); “The Edge of Day and Night”, Nam June Paik Art Center, South Korea (2020).
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LABOR
- Address
- México City, México
Founded by Pamela Echeverría in Mexico City, LABOR opened in 2009 working with artists whose creative processes are based on long-term investigations. LABOR has a strong commitment with the vision and concerns of our artists towards the contemporary political/social context. LABOR represents young artists, of mid and consolidated careers, both Mexican and international. The artists’ work approaches themes such as daily life; value and change; economic systems and social structures; the exploitation of natural resources; the ethics of human behavior and the hidden political structures in society.