Frieze Magazine Profile
Alison Nguyen Journeys Through Digital Realms
By Cassie Packard
Alison Nguyen’s film eschews didacticism to instead plunge us into a mesh of affects, imbricated histories and telling fictions. Viewers can take up any number of thematic threads: among them, the politics of assimilation, ideologies promoted by cinema and architecture, the idiosyncrasies of human and machine memory and, underscored by the limo’s contents, technology’s transhistorical violences. As Nguyen notes, ‘much contemporary surveillance technology was seeded in think tanks that emerged during the Cold War, developed in the service of US defence strategy under the guise of research’.
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