Lecture performance at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity
2019
Sick Speech is an installation, film and lecture performance examining the influence of social media and biased algorithms on mental health and mass violence. Taking up the posthumous position of Nasim Aghdam, former social media star later known as the YouTube shooter, I examine how YouTube’s biased algorithm impacted Aghdam and the greater YouTube community and the correlation between mass violence, isolation and the desire for fame. Oscillating between news media reporting, my own text, found imagery and staged photos, I reframe her story within the context of immigration trauma and misogyny, applying a feminist perspective to societal reactions towards her and her actions.
Photography by Jessica Wittman
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growth lies, pack of truth at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles Opening October 1st - January 8th
Recent Exhibitions
Spillover, Durden and Ray at the Bendix building, Los Angeles
It’s kind of a scary feeling, LAXART for X-TRA Summer Launch Party
growth lies, pack of ruth, LA Freewaves for the 2022 Queer Bienniel
Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.
growth lies, pack of truth at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles Opening October 1st - January 8th
Recent Exhibitions
Spillover, Durden and Ray at the Bendix building, Los Angeles
It’s kind of a scary feeling, LAXART for X-TRA Summer Launch Party
growth lies, pack of ruth, LA Freewaves for the 2022 Queer Bienniel
Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.