Six Art Practices in Six Different Relational Contexts

The problem of inequality is one of the most enduring and prolific problems in human history. Whether we think about violent intimate partner relationships, an abusive work environment, widening income inequality, the global labor market, the immigration crisis, the unequally distributed burden of the effects of climate crisis, or the history and ongoing legacy of colonialism – one running thread across all of these issues and indeed what characterizes the nature of many of our relational structures, is inequality. Most of us would say we want a more equal world, but what that means is debatable, situational, and even a moving target complicated by individual ideas situated in a web of intersectional needs and desires. The difficulty of undertaking, or even defining such work, however, cannot be a justification for inaction because we know all too well what the alternative looks like.

Based on the notion that inequality is a social and systemic problem, this project contains 6 art objects created out of experiences with investigating 6 art practices in 6 different relational contexts that push beyond valuing equality and toward the next step of building skills that can facilitate the operationalization of equality.  Each practice seeks to nudge thought and action toward the condition of mutualities and multiplicities, the anecdotes to inequality. (more background…)