Prowl

2020
PERFORMANCE, MOUNT GREENWOOD, IL 
HD VIDEO RECORDING;
DURATION: 7:47

During this 90-minute piece, the artist provoked layers of surveillance by having black and brown performers drive slowly through Mount Greenwood, Chicago, where many police officers reside. The drivers (in a caravan of twenty vehicles) observed the neighborhood quietly while being observed, in return, by uniformed police. Tensions rose as police and residents sought to gain control over the situation. 

VIDEOGRAPHY/EDITING
Orlando Pinder

PROWL PARTICIPANT
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.

Performance, VideoLeaf Silverprowl, cars, police, Chicago, CPD, Mount Greenwood, 2020