Proposal for a 28th Amendment?
Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
Queens Museum
Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System? is made in collaboration with Alex Strada. This multi-media work, we ask visitors to critically engage with the U.S. Constitution. Opening with the phrase “We the People,” the Constitution was written in 1787 by and for wealthy white male property owners, and to date, only 27 amendments have been ratified to change the document. This legacy and the embedded issues of structural racism, settler-colonial violence, heteropatriarchy, and labor inequities are illuminated here in videos featuring legal scholars.
Central to the installation are sonic soapbox sculptures that build upon the history of the soapbox as a site of collective struggle, while also emphasizing listening, mutuality, and access. These objects emit an in-progress oral archive of responses to the project’s questions that have been recorded by visitors and accrue over the course of eah exhibition. Visitors are invited to engage by listening and adding threir voice to the evolving oral archive.
The installation is activated through a series of public workshops planned with community partners and legal scholars. These gatherings bring people together to collectively consider, question, and debate systemic repair, radical change, and abolition to radically imagine more equitable futures. More information about the project can be found here at the Queens Museum Website.
Central to the installation are sonic soapbox sculptures that build upon the history of the soapbox as a site of collective struggle, while also emphasizing listening, mutuality, and access. These objects emit an in-progress oral archive of responses to the project’s questions that have been recorded by visitors and accrue over the course of eah exhibition. Visitors are invited to engage by listening and adding threir voice to the evolving oral archive.
The installation is activated through a series of public workshops planned with community partners and legal scholars. These gatherings bring people together to collectively consider, question, and debate systemic repair, radical change, and abolition to radically imagine more equitable futures. More information about the project can be found here at the Queens Museum Website.
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The project traveled to YBCA in where a new site specific iteration of the work was on view from October 2022 to March 2023. More information about the YBCA iteration is available here.
Proposal for a 28th Amendment?
Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
Public Workshops:
Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System?
Public Workshops:
Queens Museum:
“Defending Our Bodily Autonomy in a Broken System: Reproductive Justice, Self-Defense, and Community Care”, with MALIKAH, CUNY Law Professor Cindy SooHoo, and Alex Strada
“We the People? Nosotrxs la Gente?, with New New Yorkers and CUNY Law Professor Julia Hernandez and Alex Strada
“ Call to Care: Protecting Flushing Creek through the Rights of Nature”, with Guardians of Flushing Bay, Tecumseh Cesar, lawyer Chief Harry Wallace, CUNY Law Professor Rebecca Bratspies, and Alex Strada
Healing Justice at the Queens Museum, with MALIKAH and Alex Strada
Teen Power: Political Futures, with Queens Teens, CUNY Law Professor Charisa Kiyô Smith and Alex Strada
“Constituting Community: Dreaming and Constitutional Abolition in Honor of Trayvon Martin’s Life”, with Nailah Summers of the Dream Defenders, lawyer and organizer Derecka Purnell, scholar Nyle Fort, and Alex Strada
YBCA:
If Housing was a Human Right in U.S. Law, with Moms 4 Housing founde Dominique Walker, ACCE legal director Leah Simon-Weisberg, and Alex Strada.
Voices from the Past | Voices from the Present, with UC Berkeley law professo Khiara M. Bridges and Alex Strada, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts