BLACKOUT

Blackout
Digital Weaving Installation
Dimensions Variable
2015

Blackout is a large scale video text/ile installation studying the weave structure of police uniforms alongside statements made by families of those lost to police violence including: Aiyana Stanley-Jones (7), Tamir Rice (12), John Crawford III (22), Amadou Diallo (23), Tarika Wilson (26), Eric Garner (43), Yvette Smith (45), and Eleanor Bumpurs (66). In six black and white panels, these grief stricken texts scroll and scan endlessly, struggling to articulate themselves through the presence of serge twill - the fabric used to manufacture police uniforms across the nation.

“Blackout: A Monograph”, work by Indira Allegra. San Jose: Sming Sming Books. 2017.

Book Acquisitions:

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, NY

School of The Art Institute of Chicago, John M Flaxman Library, Chicago, IL

University of Richmond, Boatwright Memorial Library, Richmond, VA

ArtCenter College of Design Library, Pasadena, CA

Yale University Library, New Haven, CT

UC Berkeley, Department of Art Practice Library, Berkeley, CA

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ricker Library of Architecture and Art, Urbana, IL

Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

Clark Art Institute, Clark Art Library, Williamstown, MA

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Asia Art Archive in America, Brooklyn, NY

Ohio University Alden Library, Athens, OH