W H I T E V I N E G A R
by Erick Boustad
White Vinegar: A Journey Through Stagnant Light
is an attempt by one white American male to dig deep into the subconscious realms of his own being to see just what fears and conditioning exist below the surface.
Violence, carried out in the name of God and destiny, undergirds all relations in America, unless it intentionally does not.
Through a series of video and photo art, White Vinegar explores some most basic norms of America, and proceeds to follow their threads back in time. Private property, the fence, the individual, and tech billionaires to name a few.
Limited to one man’s journey into self, held throughout by a group of superb collaborators, White Vinegar is an offering of fragments to potentially someday fit into a whole. Whether this is contributing to a transformed America or something else entirely is yet to be known. But we can start to find out…
W E D, S A T, S U N
T E C H T E C H
I S T H I S R O C K ?
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C H O P P I N G W O O D
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Erick Boustead (any pronouns) is a video and photo artist residing on occupied Wappinger and Lenape homelands, also known as upstate New York, USA. Erick is primarily interested in exploring ways of repairing relationships within the context of colonization. To that effect, he has collaborated with several artists, dancers and musicians to create INNRSPCE: Finding Life on Earth; White Vinegar: A Journey Through Stagnant Light; and Way Over There (a music video). Erick is also a current participant in the IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art’s) ‘2021 Art and Politics Summer School’ focusing on the topic of containment. Credits: https://white-vinegar.com/about/
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