Figure 1 A Brief History of Collapses , film still, 2 channel HD video with 7.1 channel sound, RT 22:30, dimensions variable, 2011–12. Courtesy of the artist and Ryan Lee, New York More

Figure 2 A Brief History of Collapses , 2 channel HD video with 7.1 channel sound, RT 22:30, dimensions variable, 2011–12. Installation view at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany (Photo: Roman März). Courtesy of the artist and Ryan Lee, New York More

Figure 3 A Brief History of Collapses , film still, 2 channel HD video with 7.1 channel sound, RT 22:30, dimensions variable, 2011–12. Courtesy of the artist and Ryan Lee, New York More

Figure 1 Freee Art Collective, Protest Drives History . Photo courtesy of the artists More

Figure 2 Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture More

Figure 4 Stefanos Tsivopoulos, History Zero , 2013. A film in three episodes, 2K, color, 5:1 surround sound, 34 min. Commissioned for the Greek Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. Courtesy the artist. More

Figure 2 Spice Route Series , August 2016, installation of digital prints on silk, each 54 × 54 in. These silk prints depict the social history of plants, while borrowing from the aesthetics and history of mantones de Manila, which were silk shawls introduced as Asian luxury goods More

Figure 3 Spice Route Series , August 2016, installation of digital prints on silk, each 54 × 54 in. These silk prints depict the social history of plants, while borrowing from the aesthetics and history of mantones de Manila, which were silk shawls introduced as Asian luxury goods More

of Karnataka before being shipped down the coast by sea. This work addresses the issue of colonialism while echoing the surrounding architecture of the colonial-era spice warehouse it is housed within. The legacy of abandoned buildings utilized by the Kochi-Muziris Biennale attests to the visible history More