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Epic Hand Washing in the Time of Lost Narratives

Sabrina Starnaman xtine burrough
2020-05-12
Sabrina Starnaman researches socially-engaged literature, particularly around women’s activism, urbanism, and disability that explores how activists remediated exploitative labor practices, racism, and poverty.
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xtine burrough is a hybrid artist. She uses remix as a strategy for engaging networked audiences in critical participation at the intersection of media art and digital poetry.
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'Epic Hand Washing in the Time of Lost Narratives' by xtine burrough and Sabrina Starnaman is a speculative remix that confronts Epic Kitchens, a dataset of first-person cooking videos, with quotations from literature written during or about prior pandemics such as the bubonic plague and the global influenza pandemic of 1918-19.

The project reveals the arbitrary nature of information preservation and highlights the constructed nature of digitised materials. Blurring the lines between art and archive, or information and dataset, this work furthers discourse about the digital dataset as an authority of knowledge curation. Part of the 'Data / Set / Match' programme.

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Sabrina Starnaman researches socially-engaged literature, particularly around women’s activism, urbanism, and disability that explores how activists remediated exploitative labor practices, racism, and poverty.
More on Sabrina Starnaman
xtine burrough is a hybrid artist. She uses remix as a strategy for engaging networked audiences in critical participation at the intersection of media art and digital poetry.
More on xtine burrough
artists projects image datasets computer vision algorithms gender camera

Suggested Citation:

Starnaman, S. & burrough, x. (2020) 'Epic Hand Washing in the Time of Lost Narratives', The Photographers’ Gallery: Unthinking Photography. Available at: https://unthinking.photography/commissions/epic-hand-washing-in-the-time-of-lost-narratives
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