This seven-minute video summarizes a 90-minute performance during which Pinder provoked layers of surveillance by having black and brown performers drive slowly through Mount Greenwood, Chicago, where many Chicago police officers live. As the drivers observed the neighborhood, uniformed police surveilled the black and brown performers as they quietly circled the neighborhood in a caravan of twenty vehicles while the hostile community watched. Tensions rose as police and residents sought to gain control over the situation.

VIDEOGRAPHY/EDITING

Orlando Pinder

PROWL PARTICIPANTS

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.

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This event is part of NextNOW Fest 2022. NextNOW Fest is a signature event in University of Maryland's Arts for All initiative, which leverages the combined power of the arts, technology and social justice to address the grand challenges of our time. In addition to the festival's student, academic and touring artists lineup at The Clarice, NextNOW Fest will continue partnerships with student-led groups, academic departments and community organizations to hold the festival at sites throughout campus and into College Park!

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