Hard Numbers
international center for photography, n.y.c. (2016)
2016
40 minutes
Hard Numbers uses a series of vignettes to address surveillance, violence, and consumer culture. Performed opposite a trained German Shepherd, Reese, and her trainer Eric, Reese represents a surveillant, an aggressor, a subjugated being, a guardian, and just a dog in one performance. The multiplicity of interpretation also calls into question how the identity of “black” and “woman” are altered throughout the seriesof interactions.
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