Prowl
2020
PERFORMANCE, MOUNT GREENWOOD, IL
HD VIDEO RECORDING;
DURATION: 7:47
In this one hour performance, distilled into a video synopsis, the artist provokes layers of surveillance by assembling black and brown performers to drive slowly through Mount Greenwood, Chicago, where many police officers reside. The drivers, in an ordered assembly of twenty vehicles, observe the neighborhood and disrupt traffic patterns in this sleepy, conservative community. Quietly, while being observed, a team of uniformed police gather on the streets and a police chopper appears overhead. Tensions rise as anxious residents and police seek to gain control over the situation.
VIDEOGRAPHY/EDITING
Orlando Pinder
PROWL PARTICIPANT
Jessica Arroyo Valdes
Jillian Carew
Sheldon Cannon
Erika Venegas
Thomas Lucas
Vivek Brahmbhatt
Akanksha Brahmbhatt
Monika Thadhani
Prowl was made possible by a grant from the Alice L. Walton Foundation and © 2020 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art.