Slipped Up - A Disorientalism Installation

Multimedia Installation, 2024

ArtSpace West, Arizona State University

Final chapter of the “Food Groups” exhibition series. A collection of messages and artifacts around the food cargo complex and its role in cultural hegemony.

Disorientalism, a collaboration between Asian-American artists Katherine Behar and Marianne M. Kim, studies the disorienting effects of technologized labor, junk culture, and consumerism. Through live performance, video, photography, and installation, Disorientalism explores how these forces mediate race, gender, and bodies. In character, the Disorientals expose our hapless submersion in junk culture, and our failed attempts to rationalize it by mistakenly resorting to industriousness and work.

Jack Mehl oversaw the installation of this exhibit while serving as ArtSpace West Director at Arizona State University.

Disorientalism Website