Astria Suparak is a Thai multidisciplinary artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, California. With a bent for exploring science, politics, and community activism through pop culture and mainstream headlines, the interdisciplinary artist first came to my attention for her 2020 project Asian Futures, without Asians, a multipart research project comprising videos, installations, and other visual mediums. It analyzes American science fiction cinema and draws from the histories of art, architecture, design, fashion, film, food, and weaponry to reveal the racist tropes deeply ingrained in Western visual culture.  Suparak’s most recent curatorial work explores the political flows of the globalized sports-media complex. Created in collaboration with Brett Kashmere, The Game is Not the Thing: Sport and the Moving Image has been displayed at Walker Center in Minneapolis, MN. After the Summer Olympics, sports media and brands spent millions of dollars investing in heroic portrayals of athletes and sportswashing campaigns that…

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