https://alexstrada.com Alex Strada Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:41:30 +0000 https://alexstrada.com en https://alexstrada.com/Front-page Sun, 05 Feb 2023 21:12:16 +0000 Alex Strada https://alexstrada.com/Front-page <img width="3702" height="2473" width_o="3702" height_o="2473" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f0d2da5e887b5e7c765fe6093529def271be8aa053cbb8b94bc0c75255b76ad/Strada_CollectiveMobilities11.jpg" data-mid="228606724" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f0d2da5e887b5e7c765fe6093529def271be8aa053cbb8b94bc0c75255b76ad/Strada_CollectiveMobilities11.jpg" /> https://alexstrada.com/Mobile-nav Sun, 05 Feb 2023 21:12:16 +0000 Alex Strada https://alexstrada.com/Mobile-nav About News Press/Writing Recent Projects Public Address Collective Mobilities Proposal for a 28th Amendment?Is it Possible to Amend anUnequal System? ︎Queens Museum ︎Yerba Buena Center for the Arts ︎Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum ︎Project Row Houses truthsSave the Presidents ︎National Park ︎Midnight Moment ︎Fictive Witness Artist Contract https://alexstrada.com/Queens-Museum Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:02:34 +0000 Alex Strada https://alexstrada.com/Queens-Museum <img width="4001" height="2671" width_o="4001" height_o="2671" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a80ed0d6fd8e724b7189e38f77dde6ca904fdb886c5fe7453beea9d1c7f40489/QM_1.jpg" data-mid="167439214" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a80ed0d6fd8e724b7189e38f77dde6ca904fdb886c5fe7453beea9d1c7f40489/QM_1.jpg" /> Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?, collaboration with Tali Keren, 2021-2025 (Queens iteration 2021-2022), participatory installation with sonic soapbox sculptures, recording booth, evolving oral archive, six 4K videos, and five 60x120” canvas banners, curated by Hitomi Iwasaki and Lindsey Berfond, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY <img width="6098" height="4066" width_o="6098" height_o="4066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88cd7c0575ad5e87c9759bef2883b53ac95031440d9552601a34a8cd2802bd17/QM_2.jpg" data-mid="167484307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88cd7c0575ad5e87c9759bef2883b53ac95031440d9552601a34a8cd2802bd17/QM_2.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f845c18af817d3fcfa14f5832200c69304c6271547016c6e683d6a0154495c5c/QM_3.jpg" data-mid="167439257" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f845c18af817d3fcfa14f5832200c69304c6271547016c6e683d6a0154495c5c/QM_3.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="896" width_o="3000" height_o="896" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44312126cac571127a08228ed7b0f3ae07c9b4a373409f06c0e55d91bf494f14/QM_5.jpg" data-mid="167484176" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44312126cac571127a08228ed7b0f3ae07c9b4a373409f06c0e55d91bf494f14/QM_5.jpg" /> <img width="6042" height="4028" width_o="6042" height_o="4028" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/975d4f1fa23fcbc4e8a8ff0ba23b9d307c8d8215703fa623e4c20c52adef541a/QM_4.jpg" data-mid="167484237" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/975d4f1fa23fcbc4e8a8ff0ba23b9d307c8d8215703fa623e4c20c52adef541a/QM_4.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/665a0587cf5982ccbd0d2d9e51d271cef370d8c6a8bbdd3e32a1b6108f717c43/QM_7.jpg" data-mid="167484270" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/665a0587cf5982ccbd0d2d9e51d271cef370d8c6a8bbdd3e32a1b6108f717c43/QM_7.jpg" /> Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? is an iterative participatory installation made in collaboration with Tali Keren that was initially on view at the Queens Museum. This evolving work critically examines the U.S. Constitution through listening, recording, and intervening. Central to the installation are sonic soapbox sculptures that build upon the history of the soapbox as a site of collective struggle while emphasizing listening, mutuality, and access. These sculptures emit a growing oral archive of responses to the project’s questions recorded by past visitors using the installation’s recording booth. Videos depict the hands of legal scholars as they unpack, mark up, and redact the U.S. Constitution in relation to systemic racism, labor, the prison industrial complex, climate justice, and the difficulties of amending. The installation is activated through public workshops organized with local community partners and legal scholars. Collaborators for the Queens iteration included Malikah; Guardians of Flushing Bay; New New Yorkers; Queens Teens; Dream Defenders; CUNY Law Professors Charisa Kiyô Smith, Julia Hernandez, Rebecca Bratspies, and Cindy SooHoo; Harry Wallace, lawyer and Chief of the Unkechaug Indian Nation; lawyer and scholar Derecka Purnell; and activist and scholar nyle fort. These gatherings bring people together to collectively consider, question, and debate systemic repair, radical change, and abolition to imagine more equitable futures. This project was the subject of a live interview and call-in segment on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show. Listen here.&nbsp;WORKSHOPS:&nbsp;“Defending Our Bodily Autonomy in a Broken System” with CUNY Law Professor Cindy SooHoo and Malikah “Constituting Community” with Dream Defenders, movement lawyer Derecka Purnell and scholar and activist nyle fort&nbsp; “Call to Care: Protecting Flushing Creek through the Rights of Nature” with lawyer Chief Harry Wallace, CUNY Law Professor Rebecca Bratspies, and Guardians of Flushing Bay&nbsp; “We the People? / Nosotrx la Gente?” with the New New Yorkers and CUNY Law Professor Julia Hernandez&nbsp; “Teen Power: Political Futures” with CUNY Law Professor Charisa Kiyo Smith and the Queens Teens&nbsp; <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cd1b8a42ce62f9161b5ffedc93b0000329ead7e85085f9d104eee1b870dcd6f/4K1A5457.JPG" data-mid="167506045" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cd1b8a42ce62f9161b5ffedc93b0000329ead7e85085f9d104eee1b870dcd6f/4K1A5457.JPG" /> <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ae81fdffb4c532b9bf2a4d05320cbd124ff0f058860f380c39052f7425e2476/4K1A5583.JPG" data-mid="167506084" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ae81fdffb4c532b9bf2a4d05320cbd124ff0f058860f380c39052f7425e2476/4K1A5583.JPG" /> Call to Care: Protecting Flushing Creek through the Rights of Nature workshop with lawyer and Cheif of the Unkechaug Indian Nation Harry Wallace, CUNY Law Professor Rebecca Bratspies, and Guardians of Flushing Bay “Call to Care: Protecting Flushing Creek through the Rights of Nature” focused on environmental protection through tools and perspectives offered by Indigenous Lawyer Chief Harry Wallace and CUNY Law Professor Rebecca Bratspies. The presentations on Indigenous epistemologies of nature and New York’s new environmental Constitutional Amendment were followed by group letter writing to NY Governor Hochul. Planned in collaboration with Guardians of Flushing Bay and artist Tecumseh Cesar. <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38e2d95078b7bce134979b811fbb967006073d33157c33d73ad07596732f3bf3/4E5A4598.JPG" data-mid="167505764" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38e2d95078b7bce134979b811fbb967006073d33157c33d73ad07596732f3bf3/4E5A4598.JPG" /> Teen Power: Political Futures workshop with CUNY Law Professor Charisa Kiyô Smith and the Queens Teens “Teen Power: Political Futures” was a two-part workshop organized with the Queens Teens and CUNY Law Professor Charisa Kiyô Smith. The first gathering consisted of a lecture and discussion with Professor Smith on the rights of minors and what it means for the voting age to be 18, given existential threats like the climate emergency. Students were then invited to spend a week recording audio interviews using the project’s questions in their respective communities. We reconvened for a listening session a week later, and these recordings became a permanent feature of the soapbox soundtrack.&nbsp; <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1871ce66a21d4b70a0bd6152bd171750a9348d06805d4e65f22c296d35775d76/Bodily-Autonomy-06.JPG" data-mid="167506325" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1871ce66a21d4b70a0bd6152bd171750a9348d06805d4e65f22c296d35775d76/Bodily-Autonomy-06.JPG" /> Defending Our Bodily Autonomy in a Broken System: Reproductive Justice, Self-Defense, and Community Care&nbsp;workshop with CUNY Law Professor Cindy SooHoo and Malikah “Defending Our Bodily Autonomy in a Broken System” was a workshop with CUNY legal scholar Cindy SooHoo and Deena Hadhoud of Malikah. The program consisted of a lecture with Professor SooHoo focused on the inadequacies of legal protection for reproductive rights, the precarity of Roe v. Wade (at the time), and what it would take for all people to experience reproductive justice. This was followed by a hands-on self-defense class for women and gender-expansive people led by Deena Hadhoud in the body of the installation. <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/974e058d86a16ecc39472afdba26a0d4314f2f977f6a025ed625cf2836f9c263/4K1A3103.JPG" data-mid="167741622" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/974e058d86a16ecc39472afdba26a0d4314f2f977f6a025ed625cf2836f9c263/4K1A3103.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51a258a211f014d634f9d0c5a2e1f743a5904548937bf123d1523b48818ba1ee/Propsoalfora28thAmendment08.jpg" data-mid="167506664" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51a258a211f014d634f9d0c5a2e1f743a5904548937bf123d1523b48818ba1ee/Propsoalfora28thAmendment08.jpg" /> We the People? / ¿Nosotrxs la Gente? bilingual workshop with CUNY Law Professor Julia Hernandez and the New New Yorkers“We the People?/¿Nosotrx la Gente?” was a workshop with the New New Yorkers and CUNY Law Professor Julia Hernandez. This Spanish/English bilingual event focused on the exclusionary history of the Constitution and offered space for participants to creatively intervene within the document through writing, recording, and performance prompts.&nbsp; https://alexstrada.com/Collective-Mobilities Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:02:31 +0000 Alex Strada https://alexstrada.com/Collective-Mobilities <img width="4052" height="2706" width_o="4052" height_o="2706" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/110a9883160add3d1abed7602a3dfb75eff6a25787110baa21036ab2ba833d2b/website01.jpg" data-mid="227085733" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/110a9883160add3d1abed7602a3dfb75eff6a25787110baa21036ab2ba833d2b/website01.jpg" />Mutual Aid Mobiles, 2025, five interlocking sculptures made of wood, caster wheels, steel, cleaned and lightly used donations, and plants, dimensions vary <img width="3702" height="2473" width_o="3702" height_o="2473" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f0d2da5e887b5e7c765fe6093529def271be8aa053cbb8b94bc0c75255b76ad/Strada_CollectiveMobilities11.jpg" data-mid="240159695" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f0d2da5e887b5e7c765fe6093529def271be8aa053cbb8b94bc0c75255b76ad/Strada_CollectiveMobilities11.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c22c97ef5cf54da41384ee9b7d0005b502703bea1ee25522cb3aa1b81c4fa5cc/website02.jpeg" data-mid="227085734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c22c97ef5cf54da41384ee9b7d0005b502703bea1ee25522cb3aa1b81c4fa5cc/website02.jpeg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aebb1348b9ee53aec3e79e7dd0a8373e35afe7256fe3650fbe385ad830d3dbc5/DSC01442-copy.jpg" data-mid="240160217" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aebb1348b9ee53aec3e79e7dd0a8373e35afe7256fe3650fbe385ad830d3dbc5/DSC01442-copy.jpg" /> Apartment Vacancy, 2025, vellum, inkjet print, archival pen and pencil, 6 x 5’ <img width="3000" height="2250" width_o="3000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfd05bc99de6aeb82fab8e51ba84bd4ddb4eace89d16be2a2dea48992b9afaee/website05.jpeg" data-mid="227085741" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cfd05bc99de6aeb82fab8e51ba84bd4ddb4eace89d16be2a2dea48992b9afaee/website05.jpeg" /> <img width="3000" height="2250" width_o="3000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4db2118c46ce7171a625a6765ff8a3c89572877609fbdc0432ba00fd00cb5258/website06-copy.jpg" data-mid="227085762" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4db2118c46ce7171a625a6765ff8a3c89572877609fbdc0432ba00fd00cb5258/website06-copy.jpg" /> <img width="6048" height="4536" width_o="6048" height_o="4536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b43b597d675582b4292dcf69d35b0da79c73bfc369db7805ee4a484c230a7c50/IMG_0317_horizontal.jpg" data-mid="227085758" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b43b597d675582b4292dcf69d35b0da79c73bfc369db7805ee4a484c230a7c50/IMG_0317_horizontal.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2250" width_o="3000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f32537bbbd7436670c207f61c00de3cda28960a2c3dd169f9d0e1e054307160a/IMG_2126-edit-2-copy_resized.jpg" data-mid="227797605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f32537bbbd7436670c207f61c00de3cda28960a2c3dd169f9d0e1e054307160a/IMG_2126-edit-2-copy_resized.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e21fedb046e6b311422ba44bc6469380bf30c26d635a2ac46323b9f436a987e9/IMG_2132_resized.jpg" data-mid="227085764" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e21fedb046e6b311422ba44bc6469380bf30c26d635a2ac46323b9f436a987e9/IMG_2132_resized.jpg" /> <img width="9000" height="6011" width_o="9000" height_o="6011" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c9531285246e36818b236e362c16adf59dea0c6f2401ac729c8802a835182f7/Instagram06.jpg" data-mid="227085751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c9531285246e36818b236e362c16adf59dea0c6f2401ac729c8802a835182f7/Instagram06.jpg" /> Research image of Planting Recovery at the Third Street Men’s Shelter, 2025 Collective Mobilities is a socially engaged mobile project that facilitates redistribution and mutual aid to support people experiencing homelessness. The work was initially on view at the Pratt Institute's DeKalb Gallery in Brooklyn from February 3 to March 9, 2025. Homelessness is often stigmatized and framed as a problem to be solved by city agencies alone. This project challenges that perspective, emphasizing the shared responsibility of New Yorkers to address homelessness amidst the systemic inequities and dehumanization of people dealing with housing insecurity. By forging partnerships among students, mutual aid groups, city workers, and researchers, Collective Mobilities demonstrates the transformative potential of creative, community-driven care and alternative economies. At the core of the project are Mutual Aid Mobiles,&nbsp;a series of five colorful, portable sculptures designed with trained architect Ekin Bilal to gather and distribute lightly used clothing and essential goods. Throughout the exhibition, the gallery became an active collection site, where each donated item was cleaned and repaired as needed. Visitors could come to the gallery to “shop” at no cost during open hours. Each week, I collaborated with students and volunteers to wheel the mobiles, loaded with donations, to a nearby mutual aid group that serves people living in migrant shelters for direct and immediate redistribution. The backs of each sculpture are mirrored, reflecting the city as the objects move while also providing a practical surface for people to hold clothes up to. Throughout the duration of the DeKalb Gallery iteration, over 8,000 items were collected and redistributed. When displayed in the gallery, the mobiles were adorned with plants cultivated by participants in a horticultural therapy program grounded in harm reduction at Project Renewal’s Recovery Center, located at the Third Street Men’s Shelter in Manhattan. The plants were available for sale, with all proceeds going directly to support recreational activities chosen collectively by the program participants. Lining the walls of the exhibition were maps conveying critical information for understanding homelessness in relation to apartment vacancy, the segregated locations of shelters across the city, and non-emergency 311 complaints throughout 2024 that were tagged with “homeless.” I worked with data scientists John Lauerman and Yuanhao Wu to collect and synthesize this information. The printed GIS and hand-drawn maps on view mirrored the palette of the mobiles, situating data as inextricably linked to action. <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/062f51d9b9acbe52e53ad66706cc7d9634bd16cd0a6540501ee4528847d2c371/DSC03541-copy.jpg" data-mid="240159568" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/062f51d9b9acbe52e53ad66706cc7d9634bd16cd0a6540501ee4528847d2c371/DSC03541-copy.jpg" /> Adapt/Evolve, 2025, curated by Fawz Kabra, Fashion Institute of Technology Art and Design Gallery, New York, NY <img width="2713" height="4062" width_o="2713" height_o="4062" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e077ec2ca9c9150b5bfbca5df810f9d754f9b375ff2bc757e32db75d36de2b6/DSC03552-copy.jpg" data-mid="240159569" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e077ec2ca9c9150b5bfbca5df810f9d754f9b375ff2bc757e32db75d36de2b6/DSC03552-copy.jpg" /> 311 Calls Tagged with “Homeless”, 2025, vellum, inkjet print, archival pen and pencil, 6x5’ The mobiles have been activated at Recess Art and were included in the Adapt/Evolve exhibition at FIT, a group exhibition focused on interdependence and access. All items collected during these iterations are redistributed to mutual aid networks in support of people experiencing homelessness. https://alexstrada.com/Public-Address Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:41:30 +0000 Alex Strada https://alexstrada.com/Public-Address <img width="2048" height="1367" width_o="2048" height_o="1367" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ab423f1855b889c04094b1b321febfda155bbca21d76869462be6a5d8343770/Strada_01.jpg" data-mid="240104743" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ab423f1855b889c04094b1b321febfda155bbca21d76869462be6a5d8343770/Strada_01.jpg" /> Public Address, 2025-, iterative public artwork consisting of handwritten log entries, upcycled aluminum city street signs, concrete, and steel, curated by Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa with support from Kendal Henry, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Petrosino Square, New York, NY <img width="2000" height="1336" width_o="2000" height_o="1336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d26f6083783c5e1524946962d31776e28f72ff4f63cc32ff659aed0a09a0d321/PublicAddress02.jpg" data-mid="240106562" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d26f6083783c5e1524946962d31776e28f72ff4f63cc32ff659aed0a09a0d321/PublicAddress02.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56ac21202dfcee21d48f08a516e5b4908fbdd53e573e6e03546deb273d83d283/DSC03874-copy.jpg" data-mid="246014486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56ac21202dfcee21d48f08a516e5b4908fbdd53e573e6e03546deb273d83d283/DSC03874-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1368" width_o="2048" height_o="1368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/615493ef4a30a813fd19c380981d26114d8094037262269a4daac90deae71a48/PublicAddress03.jpg" data-mid="240106576" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/615493ef4a30a813fd19c380981d26114d8094037262269a4daac90deae71a48/PublicAddress03.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1368" width_o="2048" height_o="1368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf2c88537297b918c9bf7bc9c49cb4b50fb88145ad872cb5eb7e621387b8b817/PublicAddress07.jpg" data-mid="240106626" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf2c88537297b918c9bf7bc9c49cb4b50fb88145ad872cb5eb7e621387b8b817/PublicAddress07.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1335" width_o="2000" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/585bf8746854c6f706ab56d771e8223d0459fca006069b035a3bcf0102226113/PublicAddress06.jpg" data-mid="240106644" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/585bf8746854c6f706ab56d771e8223d0459fca006069b035a3bcf0102226113/PublicAddress06.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1335" width_o="2000" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1573504d11ef5f127df21f36272a533026a8f1d6006051809dc174d6ba7ba665/PublicAddress_website07.jpg" data-mid="240134869" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1573504d11ef5f127df21f36272a533026a8f1d6006051809dc174d6ba7ba665/PublicAddress_website07.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1336" width_o="2000" height_o="1336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64d3a1ecc9c55ba3db9514011412ae9ee62b3bf031aed5da5dabe6bb78206784/PublicAddress_website09.jpg" data-mid="240134870" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64d3a1ecc9c55ba3db9514011412ae9ee62b3bf031aed5da5dabe6bb78206784/PublicAddress_website09.jpg" /> Public Address, 2025-, sidewalk intervention consisting of upcycled aluminum city street signs, 8.5 x 14”,&nbsp; 13 signs across Manhattan <img width="2000" height="1336" width_o="2000" height_o="1336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/796c82ca33c46041952fca0c3925a09360fb3a26f4ed57d874ab8cbc25aae427/PublicAddress_website10.jpg" data-mid="240134873" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/796c82ca33c46041952fca0c3925a09360fb3a26f4ed57d874ab8cbc25aae427/PublicAddress_website10.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1336" width_o="2000" height_o="1336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cae612fb69aaa1afec3ca6366d68b75b107d4e871dc13cf8651c0b65ae3fc4c9/PublicAddress_website13.jpg" data-mid="240134881" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cae612fb69aaa1afec3ca6366d68b75b107d4e871dc13cf8651c0b65ae3fc4c9/PublicAddress_website13.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bad114c1529e117356f30878368df66ca69edfb4052018c5c2acfc34406fc000/PublicAddress_website11.jpg" data-mid="240134882" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bad114c1529e117356f30878368df66ca69edfb4052018c5c2acfc34406fc000/PublicAddress_website11.jpg" /> Public Address is a citywide public artwork curated by Storefront for Art and Architecture that grows out of my role as Public Artist in Residence with the NYC Department of Homeless Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs (2022-present). Since 2023, I have led multilingual “log-writing” workshops in dozens of shelters across the boroughs. Traditionally an internal form of record-keeping, these logs are instead used for public testimony and personal expression addressed to the broader NYC public. The entries span housing insecurity, navigating shelter, migration, care, and resistance, offering space for both advocacy and reflection. More than 300 people have contributed, and I continue to hold log-writing workshops.Through extensive inter-agency negotiations and relationship-building, I brought the Department of Transportation (DOT) on as a partner, enabling participants’ handwritten log entries to be printed onto upcycled aluminum street signs fabricated in the DOT Sign Shop. Public Address operates not only as a representational artwork, but as a civic intervention that repurposes the language and material protocols of municipal infrastructure. It asks existing systems to function differently and redirects the authority of street signage in support of people experiencing homelessness. Five large-scale, site-responsive installations--one per borough--are currently rotating through NYC Parks. The installations are designed as spaces for listening and respite in a city where public space is increasingly privatized. Each installation anchors a broader network of street-level signs distributed across the borough. One sign is installed in every community district, affixed to lampposts or drive rails, prompting passersby to pause and engage. As the project iterates and travels, new log entries are integrated in real time.&nbsp;This project is realized in partnership with Commonpoint, where participants in their construction job training program are hired to install and deinstall the installations as they move between boroughs. Public Address is activated by transdisciplinary public programming focused on housing justice, migrant rights, the criminalization of homelessness, and community-driven systems such as mutual aid networks, tenants’ unions, and community land trusts. ︎︎︎ Map of individual signs across the city︎︎︎ Storefront for Art and Architecture newsprint featuring texts by curator Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa and Department of Cultural Affairs Assistant Commissioner Kendal Henry&nbsp; ACTIVATIONS: <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d16b51de5d017dab294b39e737198ff5fec457eb8aa18a1aa72a6df0f667f79f/PublicAddress_website16.jpeg" data-mid="240134902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d16b51de5d017dab294b39e737198ff5fec457eb8aa18a1aa72a6df0f667f79f/PublicAddress_website16.jpeg" /> “The Right to the City” with writer Jennifer Egan and Will Watts, Deputy Director of Advocacy for Coalition for the Homeless“The Right to the City: Homelessness and Advocacy” opened the series of programs with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jennifer Egan and Will Watts, Deputy Executive Director for Advocacy at the Coalition for the Homeless. Together, we discussed the current state of homelessness in New York City, the only municipality in the United States that guarantees a right to shelter, a protection won through decades of advocacy and litigation, and the ongoing need for supportive housing and collective accountability. View the documentation&nbsp;here. <img width="4800" height="3200" width_o="4800" height_o="3200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f507c02feb57cbd617191e08e97417fab98489860ee753bdde1f3d2efaa1ddc1/Homes-for-People-Not-for-Profit_26.jpg" data-mid="246015414" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f507c02feb57cbd617191e08e97417fab98489860ee753bdde1f3d2efaa1ddc1/Homes-for-People-Not-for-Profit_26.jpg" /> “Homes for People, Not for Profit” with Art Against Displacement “Homes for People, Not for Profit” brought Public Address into dialogue with Homeless at Home, an artist-led project at Storefront that used stencil-based interventions to address homelessness on New York City’s streets in 1985-86. The program included a conversation with Art Against Displacement (AAD) about their organizing work confronting gentrification and predatory development. This discussion was followed by a hands-on workshop in which participants created prints using replicas of the original Homeless at Home stencils alongside contemporary adaptations. These prints were produced for distribution in public space and for use in AAD’s ongoing advocacy. &nbsp; <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50e4f8baf7eb2bd3b44ab9a144ace21559dabaf6463d2d14f056a87b8c749fed/PublicAddress_website17.jpg" data-mid="240134904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50e4f8baf7eb2bd3b44ab9a144ace21559dabaf6463d2d14f056a87b8c749fed/PublicAddress_website17.jpg" /> The opening celebration offered free food to anyone attending the exhibition or passing through the park, prepared by EVLovesNYC’s Cafewal. This free restaurant provides free meals and jobs for new New Yorkers.&nbsp; PROJECT INFRASTRUCTURE: <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5acb7bb0b4ede5309ff4379614cf13e56fb79891f49f5b609281ac2e373f61e/IMG_1065.jpeg" data-mid="240158574" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5acb7bb0b4ede5309ff4379614cf13e56fb79891f49f5b609281ac2e373f61e/IMG_1065.jpeg" /> Research image of log book at NYC shelter <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08756a41360c8311cf9ce806d13c7415c7e26155bec328ff7e369fafb2c9a819/PublicAddress_website19.jpeg" data-mid="240158325" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08756a41360c8311cf9ce806d13c7415c7e26155bec328ff7e369fafb2c9a819/PublicAddress_website19.jpeg" /> NYC Department of Transportation Sign Shop in Maspeth, Queens where all signs for the project are printed using upcycled aluminum city street signs<img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27a312309770f09af6cb2448236c8833bdcefc7345995d42a0f5dd5ec9ec3ee9/PublicAddress_website20.JPG" data-mid="240158327" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27a312309770f09af6cb2448236c8833bdcefc7345995d42a0f5dd5ec9ec3ee9/PublicAddress_website20.JPG" /> <img width="6048" height="4536" width_o="6048" height_o="4536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3be06be8b64b369e057ca3851e577b48af32f6290bddc948b29a8f985ba95c76/PublicAddress_website21.jpg" data-mid="240158323" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3be06be8b64b369e057ca3851e577b48af32f6290bddc948b29a8f985ba95c76/PublicAddress_website21.jpg" /> Individual sign installation process with DOT <img width="2000" height="1336" width_o="2000" height_o="1336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89e64a0b90a01e9aaedba821d6c24c7bc821c4eea47a0a8a3dd51e76596ebe3d/PublicAddress_website23.jpg" data-mid="240158326" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89e64a0b90a01e9aaedba821d6c24c7bc821c4eea47a0a8a3dd51e76596ebe3d/PublicAddress_website23.jpg" /> Installation at Petrosino Square with Commonpoint construction training program <img width="1336" height="2000" width_o="1336" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cc596604909563c6e9fd274fa9df99c58d93612ca70fa7fcc31f91cc71b2db9/PublicAddress_website24.jpg" data-mid="240158324" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cc596604909563c6e9fd274fa9df99c58d93612ca70fa7fcc31f91cc71b2db9/PublicAddress_website24.jpg" /> Exhibition credits:Lead curator: Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa With the invaluable support of Kendal Henry, Department of Cultural Affairs Project consultants: Kendal Henry (DCLA), Erica Dean (Department of Homeless Services), and Beatriz Fritzchler (Department of Social Services) Exhibition production: by Eduardo Meneses Exhibition design: Alex Strada and Ekin Bilal Fabrication: DOT Sign Shop (signs) and&nbsp;Chris Zirbes (bases) Installation: Commonpoint and&nbsp;DOT This project exists because of the voices and contributions of shelter residents and staff throughout New York City. https://alexstrada.com/YBCA Mon, 06 Feb 2023 23:01:11 +0000 Alex Strada https://alexstrada.com/YBCA <img width="1500" height="2250" width_o="1500" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8444ce9079330fd710a5b038114643cb87510ff0a64e936573b68b0182b797a3/YBCA06-1.jpg" data-mid="167505244" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8444ce9079330fd710a5b038114643cb87510ff0a64e936573b68b0182b797a3/YBCA06-1.jpg" /> Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?, collaboration with Tali Keren, 2021-2025 (SF iteration 2022-2023), participatory installation with sonic soapbox sculptures, recording station, evolving oral archive, eight 4K videos and four 60 x 120” canvas banners, curated by Martin Strickland and Amy Kisch, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA <img width="4500" height="3000" width_o="4500" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de41077f927bac9c5d902348258c303a0d3696f258569015d29913d0e2f9b34c/YBCA01.jpg" data-mid="167505238" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de41077f927bac9c5d902348258c303a0d3696f258569015d29913d0e2f9b34c/YBCA01.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/846981ad4e5541fe74a59974271cf453d93a7ea9647a478a296c8b02b05485bc/YBCA05.jpg" data-mid="167505243" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/846981ad4e5541fe74a59974271cf453d93a7ea9647a478a296c8b02b05485bc/YBCA05.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/946de208be491eccb7dfd2e5205d99f039b7b1a148f6c708fe41fc37ae2baf29/YBCA03.jpg" data-mid="167505240" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/946de208be491eccb7dfd2e5205d99f039b7b1a148f6c708fe41fc37ae2baf29/YBCA03.jpg" /> <img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7069959c55d1df566d1217b790e0d8ee65d7d6ea5a5f6d4afa75ae4e525b0290/YBCA02.jpg" data-mid="167505239" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7069959c55d1df566d1217b790e0d8ee65d7d6ea5a5f6d4afa75ae4e525b0290/YBCA02.jpg" /> <img width="3555" height="4740" width_o="3555" height_o="4740" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e93d1dc796886e58145a98db798f8c3dc9b1d3cfff726983aa2507397564a98/YBCA04-1.jpg" data-mid="167505241" border="0" data-scale="72" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e93d1dc796886e58145a98db798f8c3dc9b1d3cfff726983aa2507397564a98/YBCA04-1.jpg" /> <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/680103c1972fedfd53168a23dfaaecf9596d85c55e8b7ed811e0b29219f5090d/011423_28thAmendment_byTommyLau_29.jpg" data-mid="167508272" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/680103c1972fedfd53168a23dfaaecf9596d85c55e8b7ed811e0b29219f5090d/011423_28thAmendment_byTommyLau_29.jpg" /> <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/338d631f70fef9d2af027b320706db1953e0b1dec45b809d5a7905ce98aae144/YBCA07-1.jpg" data-mid="167505246" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/338d631f70fef9d2af027b320706db1953e0b1dec45b809d5a7905ce98aae144/YBCA07-1.jpg" /> From October 2022-March 2023, a site-specific adaptation of Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? (collaboration with Tali Keren) was on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. The exhibition materials shifted to reflect the dominant languages in the Bay Area. New videos include Stanford Law Professor Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese on Tribal Law and Native erasure in the U.S. Constitution; UC Berkeley Law Professor Khiara M. Bridges on reproductive justice and originalism; and Public Advocates lawyer Suzanne Dershowitz on systemic housing inequities and the growing effort to amend the California Constitution to add a right to housing. The installation was activated through public programs with Khiara M. Bridges, ACCE Legal Advocate Leah Simon-Weisberg, Moms 4 Housing, and Youth Speaks. WORKSHOPS: “Voices from the Past | Voices from the Present” with UC Berkeley Professor of Law Khiara M. Bridges&nbsp; Poetry Reading with Youth Speaks&nbsp;“If Housing was a Human Right in U.S. Law” with Dominique Walker of Moms 4 Housing and ACCE Legal Advocate Leah Simon-Wesiberg <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f81d322bf992b3d8073861c119302fef3d70274f0143cb26fc262aa4960b4be/011423_28thAmendment_byTommyLau_10.jpg" data-mid="167508269" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f81d322bf992b3d8073861c119302fef3d70274f0143cb26fc262aa4960b4be/011423_28thAmendment_byTommyLau_10.jpg" /> “Voices from the Past | Voices from the Present” workshop with UC Berkeley Professor of Law Khiara M. Bridges <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39a5c6938a28f6a3ad1d2997c7204718b482c9d7876facb242489542f9b46b46/011423_28thAmendment_byTommyLau_16.jpg" data-mid="167508270" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39a5c6938a28f6a3ad1d2997c7204718b482c9d7876facb242489542f9b46b46/011423_28thAmendment_byTommyLau_16.jpg" /> “Voices from the Past | Voices from the Present” was a workshop with UC Berkeley Professor of Law Khiara M. Bridges on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn&nbsp;Roe v. Wade. Professor Bridges explored the role of originalism in the Court’s decision, and discussed how originalism privileges the voices of the few who held power centuries ago, while silencing people who live today. <img width="3507" height="2631" width_o="3507" height_o="2631" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77b299eb7c4be16982c3407490ab0d13773365162a5c683b6903c85db253a09d/YouthSpeaks.jpg" data-mid="172983389" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77b299eb7c4be16982c3407490ab0d13773365162a5c683b6903c85db253a09d/YouthSpeaks.jpg" /> Activation of the sonic soapboxes with Youth Speaks, where teen writers from the Bay Area responded to the project’s questions through their poetry.&nbsp; <img width="3906" height="2581" width_o="3906" height_o="2581" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/146c91e0cc9cc045f438d5b7864835a3b2dc9bec1125cd2eb03bcffa908a95b5/IMG_8109.jpg" data-mid="172983544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/146c91e0cc9cc045f438d5b7864835a3b2dc9bec1125cd2eb03bcffa908a95b5/IMG_8109.jpg" /> &nbsp;&nbsp; “If Housing was a Human Right in U.S. Law” workshop with Dominique Walker of Moms 4 Housing and ACCE legal advocate Leah Simon-Weisberg <img width="2250" height="1500" width_o="2250" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a02add15d67bd30557454fd6a1d213b0ba4c5521a1dff5989856a8e38c707b18/031923_28thAmendment_byTommyLau_09.jpg" data-mid="173274651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a02add15d67bd30557454fd6a1d213b0ba4c5521a1dff5989856a8e38c707b18/031923_28thAmendment_byTommyLau_09.jpg" /> “If Housing was a Human Right in U.S. Law” focused on systemic housing inequities, the push to add a right to housing to the California state Constitution, and the critical role of grassroots community action. These subjects were unpacked by Leah Simon-Weisberg, Legal Director of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, and Dominique Walker, a founding member of Moms 4 Housing, who also reflected on the group’s occupation of a home in Oakland and how it was turned into a community land trust. Participants were then invited to reflect on the discussion by adding their voices to the installation’s oral archive. https://alexstrada.com/Aldrich Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:57:12 +0000 Alex Strada https://alexstrada.com/Aldrich <img width="1680" height="1120" width_o="1680" height_o="1120" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/935816f28d167a08b1962cecbc7ff2e45dc699285965f109887369fb4aea54fb/DSC06291-copy.jpg" data-mid="187611627" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/935816f28d167a08b1962cecbc7ff2e45dc699285965f109887369fb4aea54fb/DSC06291-copy.jpg" /> Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?, collaboration with Tali Keren, 2021-2025 (CT iteration 2023), participatory installation made of sonic soapbox sculptures with MP3 players and headphones that emit an evolving oral archive, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT From July-September 2023, the sonic soapbox sculptures were on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, in the museum’s sculpture garden--the first long-term outdoor presentation of the project. https://alexstrada.com/Project-Row-Houses Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:43:24 +0000 Alex Strada https://alexstrada.com/Project-Row-Houses <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/850405689901c904909f7d35e19c58c2eea772d60d807715549c91eb80922a10/DSC04032.jpeg" data-mid="224753172" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/850405689901c904909f7d35e19c58c2eea772d60d807715549c91eb80922a10/DSC04032.jpeg" />Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?, collaboration with Tali Keren, 2021-2025 (Houston iteration 2024-2025), participatory installation made of sonic soapbox sculptures with MP3 players and headphones that emit an evolving oral archive, recording station, six 4K videos and two 60 x 120” canvas banners, curated by Danielle Burns Wilson, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2fc2a568b4808f13f632938c5948e7ea2b1f61daa443249b187de892556f9f73/DSC04060.jpeg" data-mid="224753163" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2fc2a568b4808f13f632938c5948e7ea2b1f61daa443249b187de892556f9f73/DSC04060.jpeg" /> <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/345ad8b9cb1815b39261cec26a49dad65b2e24b9359b0a53de01d843b887b062/DSC04064.jpeg" data-mid="224753162" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/345ad8b9cb1815b39261cec26a49dad65b2e24b9359b0a53de01d843b887b062/DSC04064.jpeg" /> On Lower Case “c” constitutionalism, collaboration with legal scholar Amna Akbar and Tali Keren, 2024, 4K video, 9:26 <img width="5304" height="3538" width_o="5304" height_o="3538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/391342eb261c0ee46fb9ead1cafe1dc00559dbdb79a528cb8d7190cdee67785c/DSC04066-copy.jpg" data-mid="245770179" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/391342eb261c0ee46fb9ead1cafe1dc00559dbdb79a528cb8d7190cdee67785c/DSC04066-copy.jpg" /> From September 2024 to February 2025, a new site-specific iteration of the project was on view at Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas.&nbsp; https://alexstrada.com/truths Mon, 06 Feb 2023 23:49:02 +0000 Alex Strada https://alexstrada.com/truths truths, 2021, 4K video, 2m8s clip from 21m film <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/484803a0bb509f09f758bf18b0412f1187214bb78c98edbe64c64b4963975524/truths1.jpg" data-mid="167508521" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/484803a0bb509f09f758bf18b0412f1187214bb78c98edbe64c64b4963975524/truths1.jpg" />truths, 2021, still from 4K video, 21m<img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9102d7ae5389a16c3b697d82c6379938e7b436e00b364cdb4cf789946bc54f6/truths3.jpg" data-mid="167508524" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9102d7ae5389a16c3b697d82c6379938e7b436e00b364cdb4cf789946bc54f6/truths3.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4197d9f5e278b0205cd3793122d91dbed2a89ce7a0a006848fdffcc4c4d7c252/truths4.jpg" data-mid="167508525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4197d9f5e278b0205cd3793122d91dbed2a89ce7a0a006848fdffcc4c4d7c252/truths4.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/caea82130b8b4287c045d99dc320a3aa7e28886edfbff6518c903b4ec308e65d/truths5.jpg" data-mid="167508526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/caea82130b8b4287c045d99dc320a3aa7e28886edfbff6518c903b4ec308e65d/truths5.jpg" /> <img width="4466" height="2510" width_o="4466" height_o="2510" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d26dac36a50c6b142951f8dc1cd928853d7440b937fba6545568b7ac089e7ee/truths7.png" data-mid="167508528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d26dac36a50c6b142951f8dc1cd928853d7440b937fba6545568b7ac089e7ee/truths7.png" /> <img width="2736" height="1522" width_o="2736" height_o="1522" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/941f3e7c397c430a912a44517b9210983d5f378bbd8b1ff1a8b736341da5187c/truths8-copy.jpg" data-mid="168783376" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/941f3e7c397c430a912a44517b9210983d5f378bbd8b1ff1a8b736341da5187c/truths8-copy.jpg" /> Research image with stills from 4K video interviews with Silvia Federici, Claudia Rankine, Erin Cloud, Vanessa Wills, Natalie Diaz, Monica Youn, Sarah Schulman, Clarasita Zambrana, and Eileen Myles In 1935, in exile after fleeing Germany, poet and political philosopher Bertolt Brecht wrote “Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties.” The essay unpacks the difficult imperative of understanding the nature of “truth” amidst the rise of fascism, capitalist exploitation, and land privatization across Europe. truths is an experimental video essay that uses Brecht’s text to explore questions of “truth” in relation to labor. The soundtrack consists of excerpts from interviews with poets and philosophers, including Claudia Rankine, Natalie Diaz, Gayatri Spivak, Eileen Myles, Vanessa Wills, and Silvia Federici, that have been pulled apart and woven together. The visuals consist of long shots of interconnected hidden labor occurring throughout a quickly gentrifying block in Manhattan and span art conservation, meatpacking, and the maintenance of shoreline erosion. Viewers are asked to actively draw connections as what one sees and hears converges and contrasts. Through juxtapositions, insights, schisms, continuities, and cracks, the film frames “truth” as simultaneously physical and abstract, contradictory, porous, felt, unknowable, and perpetually in motion.This film is supported by the NYFA Women’s Fund for Media Artists and the New York State Council for the Arts. https://alexstrada.com/Artist-Contract Mon, 06 Feb 2023 23:53:59 +0000 Alex Strada https://alexstrada.com/Artist-Contract <img width="2016" height="1338" width_o="2016" height_o="1338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0cbbf571ec35317d63c26fc35fdbdb900eab0c7d15ae715fac454435f17dcb3/Artistcontract1.jpg" data-mid="167508832" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0cbbf571ec35317d63c26fc35fdbdb900eab0c7d15ae715fac454435f17dcb3/Artistcontract1.jpg" /> “Agreement: Alex Strada in conversation with Lauren van Haaften-Schick,” 2019, Double Negative at ChaShaMa, curated by Darling Green, New York, NY <img width="7650" height="6600" width_o="7650" height_o="6600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e48d59a3cebde18f9ae193e0ab65baca70442dad6aa63a6e1e8b897e0b513ed2/230927_Alex-Strada-Contract_poster_v3.jpg" data-mid="192169197" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e48d59a3cebde18f9ae193e0ab65baca70442dad6aa63a6e1e8b897e0b513ed2/230927_Alex-Strada-Contract_poster_v3.jpg" /> Artist Contract (2017-) is an evolving conceptual artwork and legal contract that employs collective economic redistribution to challenge the gendered inequities that permeate the art market. The contract is based on Seth Siegelaub and Robert Projansky’s 1971 The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement, which gave artists more power over the trajectories of their works. Artist Contract builds on this framework but mandates that every “owner” sell the artwork after ten years upon purchase. All accrued value must be reinvested in new work by an emerging female-identifying, transgender, or gender expansive artist. In opposition to “collecting,” the contract elicits stewardship, where the artwork continually changes hands every ten years and, in the process, supports artists who are often overlooked and underpaid. Artist Contract may be bought and sold as an artwork in and of itself, or it may function as a contract in tandem with another artwork. Its presence must always be visible in a form mutually agreed upon by the Artist and Steward. In this way, the work points to the bureaucratic labor inherent in displaying an artwork often hidden from sight while enabling a collaborative relationship between the Artist and Steward, both creatively and politically. Download the agreement, read it, modify it, use it, or pass it along.