WORD ON THE STREET
Fabric Banners / Installation / Public Art, 2017-ongoing
Exhibited at and commissioned by Times Square Arts and The Watermill Center. Word On the Street has been shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, Artpace, Leila Heller Gallery, Emerson Collective, and more.
The Watermill Center Exhibition of Word on the Street, March 23-August 10, 2018
Word on the Street is an ongoing text-based public art initiative in collaboration with my sibling-led arts collective House of Trees consisting of original political and poetic banners created by female international artists and writers in collaboration with female refugee fabricators based in Texas. Artists + writers include: myself + Anne Carson, Carrie Mae Weems, Wangechi Mutu, Jenny Holzer, Laurie Anderson + A.M. Homes, Tania Bruguera, Naomi Shihab Nye + House of Trees. Originally created from felt as protest expressions during the Women’s March, the Word on the Street banners speak to the urgent, timeless concerns of the individual, community and the requirements of citizenry. Commissioned by Times Square Arts, the reproductions of the banners appeared on street pole banners in Times Square, subverting advertising space with the language of resistance.
