White Gaze

An open book. On the left, a summer crowd gathers by a red-draped platform below a granite mountain where pale dust plumes from a carved slope, and beneath it a man in a feathered headdress sits at a table with men in suits. On the right, two people in fur parkas grin on a rocky slope beside a camera, and the sparse words read: they disappeared / They disap- / peared.
Title
White Gaze
Artist
Latipa (Michelle Dizon), Việt Lê
Date
2018
Description
An artist's book and photographic installation by Latipa (Michelle Dizon), with poetry by Việt Lê, made from an archive of National Geographic magazines from the 1960s and earlier. Dizon erased most of the text on each page, leaving fragments that form a decolonial counterpoint to the magazine's imperialist, Western-centric images of people and lands, and Lê added original poetry and a text on the legacies of war and empire. The book was published in 2018 by at land's edge (Los Angeles), Candor Arts (Chicago) and Sming Sming Books (Bay Area), and the work was exhibited at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, from March 20 to July 31, 2018.
Artwork Type
Book / Book Chapter
Photography
Materiality
Paper
Photographic Materials
Concepts
Colonialism and Decolonization
Methods & Approaches
Archival Research
Audience / Engagement Type
Publication and Print
Location
California Institute of Integral Studies, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, California
Rights
Rights held by artist or creator
Website
aperture.org
Affiliated Organizations
Memory and Resistance Laboratory
Discipline / Field
Arts & Design
Item sets
California Art & Climate Archive
UC Riverside
Media
An open book. On the left, a summer crowd gathers by a red-draped platform below a granite mountain where pale dust plumes from a carved slope, and beneath it a man in a feathered headdress sits at a table with men in suits. On the right, two people in fur parkas grin on a rocky slope beside a camera, and the sparse words read: they disappeared / They disap- / peared.Latipa (Michelle Dizon) and Việt Lê, White Gaze