《UNSTOPPABLE》 西雅图独立画廊 INCA开幕!
发起人:siyuan  回复数:0   浏览数:2164   最后更新:2016/01/05 04:16:39 by siyuan
[楼主] siyuan 2016-01-05 04:16:39

来源:  INCA画廊网站

http://incainstitute.org/unstoppable/

Unstoppable

Unstoppable
micha cárdenas, Patrisse Cullors, Edxie Betts and Chris Head
18 December – 22 January
Curated by Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman
—————————————–
INCA SEATTLE (NEW SPACE)
2 West Roy St. Seattle, WA, 98110
Uptown (Lower Queen Anne)
Exhibition: 18 December – 22 January
Opening: 18 December 7:30-9:30pm
Opening hours: Wednesday-Saturday 3-7pm
Closed: 24,25,31 December and Jan 1st
—————————————–
Conversation: micha cárdenas, Edxie Betts, Kiyomi Fujikawa, C. Davida Ingram and Nikkita Oliver on 18 December at 8:30pm
Organized by micha cárdenas
—————————————–


UNSTOPPABLE

At the 2015 Allied Media Conference opening ceremony, Patrisse Cullors asked “what would technology for black lives be,” while wearing a shirt designed by Foremost and Damon Turner with the words BULLETPROOF #BlackLivesMatter emblazoned across her chest in gold. Inspired by this idea, micha cárdenas, Patrisse Cullors, Edxie Betts and Chris Head are collaborating to develop UNSTOPPABLE, a set of materials and processes for producing DIY bulletproof clothing at low to no cost. UNSTOPPABLE is art as intervention. The artists have developed a set of instructions for making these garments for wide dissemination. These clothes and prototypes will be the basis for a series of workshops, round tables and conversations about direct action approaches to ending the murder of black people, in particular black trans women, at universities and community centers around the US, and wherever there is interest in hosting these conversations.

The project name comes from the words of Sylvia Rivera, a trans latina leader of the movement for freedom for transgender people, who said “a lot of heads were bashed [at Stonewall]. But it didn’t hurt their true feelings — they all came back for more and more. Nothing — that’s when you could tell that nothing could stop us at that time or any time in the future.” Also, the name refers to the idea of that firearms’ capacity to cause harm is called stopping power. We are unstoppable.

Governments today kill both through direct acts of state violence, such as police killing black people, and through neglect, choosing not to prosecute the murders of trans women, or looking the other way when civilians and paramilitaries arm themselves and commit murder. In this state of necropolitics, where the government facilitates death for communities it deems unwanted, we must act to physically protect ourselves now, as we do not even know where the next bullet might come from.


12440467_10208377201488008_911251524357666186_o1462552_10208377201568010_4290362581173595019_o12419200_10208377203088048_2677922924757455777_o

12484754_10208377200847992_3034269447565249049_o

12487082_10208377198447932_6844649321442654047_o

返回页首