Disoriental Flavors (after Edward Said)

Single Channel Video
15:21 minutes
2019
This video-essay takes inspiration from Edward Said’s seminal book, “Orientalism.” A computer generated British voice takes and repurposes Said’s ideas as its own. Footage from San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum plays in the background, with many of the artifacts originating from both the near and far East. Over 60 possible countries span the area of the undefined Oriental borders, each with a messy history that stretches to a time prior to Western civilization. Yet, the culmination of these countries become essentialized into a singular reductive category: Eastern / Asian / Oriental.

Music/sound by Giovanni Abei

Other Works

  1. A Matter of Orientation
  2. What Kind of Ancestors Will We Become?
  3. Martha
  4. Everything Is A Decaying Lump of Now
  5. Goose and Crocodile
  6. Survivors of a Lying Species
  7. Disoriental Flavors (after Edward Said)
  8. The Immortal Gold Rabbit
  9. Welcome To Jungle Florida
  10. Colorbound
  11. Birdcage
  12. Colonial White
  13. China White
  14. Hanging Fruit
  15. The Impossibility of Home
  16. Reading the Rainbow
  17. Good Vibrations
  18. Intergalactic Immigration Office
  19. Vibrating Pink Egg
  20. Skinny Dipping
  21. White Lie
  22. Who’s Afraid of Chinatown Orange?
  23. Parental Guidance
  24. Movable Wave
  25. Portal
  26. Augmented Door
  27. Impermanent Infinity
  28. Expanded Field
  29. People Take Warning: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs
  30. Day of the Painter
  31. Oedipal Art Wrestling
  32. I’M RESIGNING, I’M HEREBY OFICIALLY TENDERING MY RESIGNATION AS AN ADULT!
  33. Longing for the stars, Longing for the moon
  34. All work and no play makes art a dull boy