WE LIVE! Memories of Resistance brings together In Plain Sight artists that engage the听contemporary stakes of historical remembrance and collective memory.
OXY ARTS and In Plain Sight present WE LIVE! Memories of Resistance, a group exhibition of 14听artists.听
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Over Independence Day weekend, , a听national coalition of 80 artists, activists, and organizers, chartered a fleet of planes to type poetic and impactful messages in the sky over ICE detention centers, former government-run incarceration camps, border patrol stations, and immigration courts across the United States. Phrases such as 鈥淎BOLITION NOW,鈥 鈥淕OD BROWN AMERICA,鈥 and 鈥淣OS VEMOS LIBRES鈥 offered recognition and hope to detained community members while exposing the vast scale of our immigrant detention system that hides 鈥渋n plain sight鈥 beyond public consciousness.
WE LIVE! Memories of Resistance brings together In Plain Sight artists that engage the contemporary political stakes of historical remembrance and collective memory. Employing a diverse range of formally innovative creative practices, their artworks transport viewers through pasts, both real and imagined, to propose a future beyond white supremacy, settler colonialism, and the brutality of policing and punishment. Some artists manipulate materials or mine archival documents to expose the intergenerational reverberations of racism and state violence, while others invite community collaboration to reconstruct histories of resistance and to heal traumatic loss. Still others incorporate ancestral myths, histories, and knowledge to recognize the resilience of oppressed communities and to design speculative spaces of possibility, protection, and belonging.
By embracing memory as a living source of reinvention and transformation, these artists scrutinize the underlying conditions of immigrant detention to inspire acts of resistance that challenge our culture of incarceration and racial injustice.
Activity Guide
Recommended for 4th-8th grade students,听the听exhibition activity guide features three prompts to听further engage with and reflect on the themes presented in听WE LIVE! Memories of Resistance.听
Download the activity guide or follow along online!听
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This program is made possible by the Remsen Bird Fund and th
This program is made possible by the Remsen Bird Fund and the Arts and Urban Experience Initiative, which is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.