The Spectacles Before Us Were Indeed Sublime depicts a fictional voyage on a cruise ship named E. Using the cruise ship as a speculative vantage point, Ye gestures toward the cultural implications of maritime voyage as not only the starting point of modern global colonialism but of segregated diaspora and migration more broadly.
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