Barbata, Laura Anderson (Brooklyn, New York)
Far left:Minaya, Joiri (Bronx, New York) , Far right: Red Star, Wendy (Portland, Oregon)
Crafted Strangers, 2018
In the United States and Canada government policies and popular media create a misleading narrative that places people of color at society’s margins. From cultural restrictions to harmful stereotypes the seemingly opposite experiences of the first and most recent people to live on this land share many of the same struggles. Framed within the Native American and immigrant experience, Crafted Strangers explores how craft can be used as a tool for regaining control over how one chooses to define themself.
Futurographies: Cambodia, US, France, 2016
While Cambodia, the United States, and France share a violent past—colonial repression, war, bombing campaigns, genocide, migrations of refugees, deportations, and forced ‘repatriations’—this multi-media exhibition explores another set of parallel histories in which alternate futures were (and are) written, proposed and even determined. Featuring visual art, photography, music, performance, sculpture, installation, and text, it reveals the ways in which people imagine and generate futures in contexts most often represented as ones of crisis, disaster, and victimhood. The exhibition features work by Binh Danh, Genealogy of Bassac Group/Pen Sereypagna, The Cambodian Space Project, Chath Piersath, Eng Rithchandaneth, Charles Fox, Stuart Isett, Klap Ya Handz/Sok “Cream” Visal, Komlang Khmer, Dave Kyu, Roland Neveu, Michelle Nugent, Peuo Tuy, Pete Pin, Monica Sok, Studio Revolt/Anida Yoeu Ali, and Yim Maline.