Pat – riot – against the slow cancellation of the future
Ala Younis’s Pat – riot – against the slow cancellation of the future is based on two historic incidents. Developing from the iconic film evidence of the bread riots in Egypt and radio reports in Jordan following the entry of refugees from Iraq in 1990, Ala Younis creates a ‘stereoscopic’ study concerned with the abetment of riots and civic disorder examined through the devices of rumours, bureaucratic leaks, manipulation of public opinion and prejudiced ‘truth’. Younis’s project assesses the images streamed through mobile cameras and televised mass demonstrations in Egypt, including the way social media feeds perform a kind of algorithmic terror by constructing new conduits for bigotry.