James Coupe: Warriors
Ongoing until May 18, 2020 11:00am – 7:00pm
British-born, Seattle-based artist James Coupe creates artworks that examine the often unseen and unacknowledged impact of surveillance and artificial intelligence on our everyday lives. The three new works presented in James Coupe: Warriors revisit Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic film The Warriors to explore contested notions of community, race, gender, and class in the twenty-first century. Hill’s film is set “sometime in the future,” in a New York beset with white supremacist and xenophobic hatred, police brutality, and massive economic inequality. Coupe updates The Warriors by using deepfake algorithms to populate key scenes from the film with museum visitors’ faces, inserted into gangs on the basis of data-driven analysis of their demographic, economic, and occupational markers. This collision of past and present highlights the social tensions portrayed on screen and their contemporary relevance.
Location
International Center of Photography
79 Essex St,
New York, NY 10002 USA