Pig Roast, 2021
Video, Public Event, Participatory Performance, Sculpture
Pig Roast is a video of a barbecue the artist held in Von King Park in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The video shows Williams engaged in the action of material transformation in real time in public. Williams invites a group of friends and neighbors to join them in roasting suckling pigs adorned with the paraphernalia of police uniforms. The video meditates on intramural gatherings as sites of fugitive and subversive play within existing structures of policing and regulation.