Your Future is Bright (After the second presidential debate, 2012)

2012

Audio recording, mixed media installation

Your Future is Bright was an installation to be seen, smelled, tasted, and heard. Upon entering the gallery, the artist served visitors home-baked apple pie while they listened to an audio track in which statements from the second 2012 presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are revoiced through female-coded voices. Political speech, often associated with authority and masculinity, is displaced into a domestic act of care, where its gendering becomes perceptible.