Sondra Perry’s Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera I & II (2013) opens the FAC’s Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound series. The two-channel projection features two performers who dance in the corner of a white room. Their energetic and frantic movements are obscured by a flickering white haze, an effect Perry applied using a Photoshop tool that allows users to erase part of an image and fill it in using artificial intelligence. The result is a battle between the body and technology. As with much of her work, here Perry seeks to investigate “how Blackness shifts, morphs, and embodies technology to combat oppression and surveillance throughout the diaspora.”
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About Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound
From August 2024–June 2025, the Lane West Gallery will be dedicated to a rotating selection of contemporary film, video, and sound works. Each of the featured artists grapples with the body’s relationship to technology.
Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound is curated by Katja Rivera, Curator of Contemporary Art. Support is generously provided by the Catharine and Bart Holaday Endowment for Interactive Art.
Top image: Sondra Perry, Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera I & II (detail), 2013. Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.