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David Sanchez Burr is an Artist and Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Media at Lake Forest College in Illinois.
Jake Dockins, a BFA student at the University of North Texas, smartly used media footage of an empty presidential podium often seen in anticipation of an announcement. Shown in tandem with audio of news reports about mass shootings the video unifies the anticipation of action with its inevitable disappointment . Highlighting the "absence" of leadership to resolve shootings in the United States this video called Moments of Silence is also prescient of a state of democracy. Freedom Never Tasted so Good by Mia Adams gives us a "satirical representation of the dark history of the United States. Vivid red cake is used to represent the ongoing terror that in the end, always gets sugar-coated. Even after the damage is done, subtle remnants of that history still remain present in contemporary society". Lindsey Garcia's Cutie in The City along with Dockins and Adams work bring performative elements to the exhibition, highlighting the embodiment or lack of embodiment, aspiring in all cases to commit to an action.
Yasmina Chavez shows us another perspective, one that reflect on personal space, ritual and the #metoo movement, we enter the homes of women in full view of an orchestrated dance to Al Stuart's Year of the Cat, Yasmina asks us to think about spaces considered safe; the women featured in this video show us the freedom and joy sometimes found in these personal spaces, and prompts us to think of our own places and sense of safety within them.