Boomerang

Using the “boomerang” feature built into the social media platform Instagram which takes small one-second clips of video and plays them sequentially forward and backward in a loop. I recorded video footage from social media of civil rights protests, school shootings, and white supremacist rallies to show how social issues seem to repeat themselves. The whole project is about using a social media tool to record social media footage of social issues. In this case, the tool is not just an object used to perform a task that results in some other end, it is also the conceptual vehicle for the work.