Us Is ____ is a piece written by Related Tactics as part of a special folio, “Locating a Collective Lyric ‘I’,” edited by Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager for Issue 17.1 (Winter 2024) of The Hopkins Review. In this essay we footnote our “public facing” artist statement language to reveal the complex layers that are negotiated and nurtured within artistic collaborations that often go unseen.

Link to full PDF of creative essay.