Proof of Concept is a retrospective exhibition catalog of the media works of Armando Rascón. Tracing the development from early Super 8mm film to the advent of digital activist media works and the ephemera that have defined his practice from 1976 to 2026, the book pits the artist’s penchant for a range of subject matter from California’s postcolonial history to queer activism with earlier backdrops of experimental sound works dating to the late 1970s and early ’80s. The book incorporates plentiful WebAR codes to supplant sound and video experiences for the reader.
Beginning with a poignant preface by Los Angeles’s own Armando Durón, the book is accompanied by a series of comprehensive essays that chronicle distinct phases of the artist’s life by cultural critic Norma Alarcón alongside renown curators and scholars Dan Cameron, Daniell Cornell, Rosalía Romero, Victor Zamudio-Taylor, and Claudia E. Zapata.
The book includes full-color plates and documentation of a broad range of spectral media installations that now only exist in picture form. The sharp focus concentrates on the elliptical nature of postcolonial studies at the intersection with the changing social landscape of the twenty-first century. Ultimately, Proof of Concept exists as an examination of a physically fictive exhibition awash with a lifespan of extant works and their extinct ephemeral counterparts.
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