All standpoints are partial was initially a live Zoom performance accompanied by pre-recorded media, and was produced for ‘ Here Together’ The Immigrant Artist Biennial Performance Programming at the EFA Project Space in Fall 2020.
—> The piece was then commissioned to be modified and presented as a standalone video at the Beeler Gallery for the exhibition entitled November, curated by Heather Taylor (January of 2021).
—> Project Description: Utilizing the cyberspace, this collaborative piece explores the immigration and asylum seeking process during quarantine as they relate to technology, physical and digital screens, screenings, personal data collection, biased data profiling, machinic decision making and the subsequent lack of empathy. This piece is a commentary on the intricacies of the immigration processes during covid when all communication with immigration officers transitioned into virtual modalities resulting in hyper-gamification of the process for the officers and further dehumanization of the applicants.
The piece imagines a speculative reality in which entrance visa applicants are required to navigate a complex and absurd journey as their interview process. The video begins as an immigration officer initiates the interview session by blowing the first question –written on a piece of paper that is folded into an extremely small ball– through a tube. We watch the piece of paper travel through time and space both physically and digitally until it hits the applican’t hands –drenched in the officer’s saliva. The applicant unfolds the paper and the questions is revealed: “What is Credible Fear?”. **Credible fear screening is a process used in the United States to determine whether an individual seeking asylum has a credible fear of persecution or torture if they were to return to their home country.
***The viewer will need to use a smartphone in order to scan multiple QR codes that appear throughout this video.