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Artworks
Andrea Bowers
Disrupting and Resisting, J20 & J21, 2017, 2018Single channel HD video with color and sound89:23 minEdition of 5 + 2 APB-ABOWERS-.18-0010Further images
'Disrupting and Resisting, J20 & J21, 2017' records the protests and marches on the first two days of the Trump presidency in Washington D.C. The video focuses on two different..."Disrupting and Resisting, J20 & J21, 2017" records the protests and marches on the first two days of the Trump presidency in Washington D.C. The video focuses on two different activist groups, #DisruptJ20 and the Women’s March. It is the artist’s goal to memorialize these activist groups and their actions around the Trump inauguration as important moments of descent in support of democracy, freedom of speech, social justice and the right of the people to peaceably assemble. As the activist named Future of Black Lives Matter is recorded proclaiming in the video, “Coalitions aren’t meant to be permanent. Sometimes they are fragile and they are temporary but we have got to build them. This, these next four years, we have got to find each other in this movement...
We have got to find each other in this.”