amazon suite: abra, to be a box, amazon real love memo, and workers liberation as environmental justice

2018 — 2023

abra 2018

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vanishing act, queer arts festival, vancouver, bc, 2022. curated by adwait singh. photo by sd holman.

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photos by panagiotis baxevanis, courtesy of onassis stegi, your and ai: through the algorithmic lens, pedion tou areos, athens, gr 2021

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photos by stelios tzetzias, courtesy of onassis stegi, your and ai: through the algorithmic lens, pedion tou areos, athens, gr 2021
abra: digital exhibition, left contemporary, windsor, on, 2020

xpace cultural centre, toronto, on, 2020; photography by roya delsol
scan the difference: gender, surveillance, and bodies series, vbkö, vienna, au; curated by vanessa gravenor, nina prader, and e. bonhomme, 2019
syphon 5.1: my life is not your ______., modern fuel artist run centre, kingston, on, online and print, 2019

alienated labor (with jonathan chacon), ori gallery, portland, or; curated by yun chiu, 2018

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extract, dead projects, toronto, ontario, canada, 2023


ali, in their video abra (2018), is in conversation with the "percy" mascot, who is related to amazon’s customer-obsessed mascot, peccy. their discussion about working-class labor, surveillance, and bubbles (economic, social and soap filled), literally paints the video orange. they contend that orange is the contemporary color of labor and surveillance, it is racialized and classed.

to be a box 2018

Screened at Scan the Difference: Gender, Surveillance, and Bodies Series, VBKÖ (Association of Austrian Women,) Vienna, AU, Curated by Vanessa Gravenor, Nina Prader, and e. bonhomme
Screened at Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, TX at the conclusion of the Welcome to My Homepage Residency, 2017

Digital sketch for To Be a Box performance


a performance piece where i embodied an amazon box and detailed my experience of being in the world designed by humans.

Screenings

  1. 2019 To Be A Box Screening, Scan the Difference: Gender, Surveillance, and Bodies Series, VBKÖ (Association of Austrian Women,) Vienna, AU, Curated by Vanessa Gravenor, Nina Prader, and e. bonhomme
  2. 2018 To Be a Box (performance with Lilia Taboada,) 2018 Studio Art MFA Thesis Colloquia: Part II, Austin, TX
  3. 2018 To Be A Box Screening, Women of the Global South and its Diasporas: Rights, Representation, Activism Symposium, University of Leeds, ENG

amazon real love memo 2021


the second version of the "real love memo" was made during the ada dada residency.



the first version of the "real love memo" was made for nina sarnelle's digital publication and conceptual webstore, the whole sell.

workers liberation as environmental justice (2020-2023)

viewers navigate an interactive 3d environment where amazon's warehouse facilities’ predatory labour practices and the corporation's toll exerted on the natural environment is reimagined. the we are all living: workers liberation as environmental justice 360-degree video experience was commissioned as part of daimon's second virtual residency in april-may 2020.

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workers liberation as environmental justice installation, shape of your error Exhibition, 5533 space, 360 video, 02:59, 2023 curated by melih aydemir, photography: zeynep fırat.

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workers liberation as environmental justice installation, terms and conditions, interaccess, toronto, on, 2022. curated by barbara cueto and bas hendrikx.