Declarations for the New Year, Southern Exposure Gallery, SF, 2016
In Declarations for the New Year, Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson) invited 40 artists, writers, cultural producers, and civic-minded instigators to make short declarations or calls to action for 2016. The exhibition was the second iteration Southern Exposure’s 4x40 group program.
Declarations manifested in four separate forms – posters designed by Shawn Tamaribuchi, postcards, buttons, and radical mapping – so that audiences could take away these messages as provocations or reminders to post at home, send to a friend, and wear on their body. With this gathering of provocations, we aimed to spark a dialogue to carry us forward in the coming year.
Participating artists: Eliza O. Barrios, Jason Bayani, Congratulations Pine Tree, Jaime Cortez, Katie Dorame, Rodney Ewing, Cristal Fiel, Jacqueline Francis, Taraneh Hemami, Cliff Hengst, Angela Hennessy, Mei-ling Humphrey, Gisela Insuaste, Ernest Jolly, Nia King, John Jota Leaños, Kapiʻolani Lee, Rhiannon MacFadyen, Vero Majano, Michelada Think Tank, Omar Mismar, Channing Morgan, Mia Nakano, People's Kitchen (Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Jocelyn Jackson, and Saqib Keval), Queer Rebel Productions, Jerome Reyes, Maryam Rostami, Surabhi Saraf, Malik Shabazz, Pallavi Sharma, Bayeté Ross Smith, SOMA Pilipinas, Southern Exposure Youth Advisory Board, Truong Tran, Elizabeth Travelslight, Chris E. Vargas, Anuradha Vikram, Leila Weefur, Imin Yeh, and Lehua Yim.
