Ready, Wexner Center for the Arts, columbus, oh, 2021
Ready is a traveling artistic platform by Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nathan Watson) that invites other artists to join us in making and deploying a collection of creative interventions, tools, and strategies that can be used to interrupt systems of marginalization, exploitation, and erasure, large and small.
For the second iteration of Ready (originally installed at the Berkeley Arts Center, 2019) at the Wexner Center for the Arts as a part of Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment, we invited fifteen artists from around the country to reflect with Related Tactics by creating short text pieces that describe critical actions or artists’ interventions that invite audiences to examine what it means to be ready to engage with and transform the state of our world. These creative actions, written in the artist’s own hand, were printed and displayed in the Wexner. A free print takeaway that collects all of the text pieces will be available so audiences can employ the interventions in their own communities and institutions.
Contributing artists: Pablo Andres Cristi, Allan deSouza, Katie Dorame, Michelle Kuen Suet Fung, Caroline Garcia, Ghana Think Tank (Maria del Carmen Montoya, Christopher Robbins, John Ewing), Sonia Guiñansaca, Taraneh Hemami, Sara Jamshidi, Nanea Lum, Nicole Marroquin, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Gina Osterloh, Related Tactics, Roberto Sifuentes, Tosha Stimage, Christine Wong Yap, and the audience of the Berkeley Art Center.
