Published by the artists: Agitpop Press
Softcover, 24pages
28 x 21 cm | 11 x 8.75 in
From the artists: The suburbs are a violent place—just not for the decent folks who live in them.
Across the land, the postwar American family migrated to a new and verdant frontier: the suburb. Join us and explore this outpost! Experience the postwar planned community in all its monolithic splendor!
White Flight! is an imaginary model community’s monthly home improvement magazine that considers who gets to populate the American dream and why. It was created to accompany the “White Flight Model Home” installation as part of my solo show I Have Seen the Future: The American Dream at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center.
White Flight!, takes a journey deep into the dark heart of the exhibition’s “American Home Pavilion” picking up where the I Have Seen the Future: Official Guide (see below) left off. It asks who was allowed into suburbia—and what mechanisms of exclusion kept others out. Through excerpted critical essays, appropriated imagery and subverted advertisements of the era, it demonstrates how suburban fences were not so much made of white pickets as they were zoning, redlining, discriminatory banking practices, and an idea of normative culture that actively excluded anyone of color.