EVENTS
ALL TOGETHER NOW
From 2016-2019 I produced All Together Now, an inclusive and multi-disciplinary performance series. The series, which moved around Boston, featured a wide range of emerging and established artists from Boston and New York City, working across genres. It was twice awarded LAB grants from The Boston and Barr Foundations, and included as a featured project in a LAB impact report. The series was covered by a range of traditional and new media, including The Boston Globe, Improper Bostonian, WBUR's The ARTery, Dig Boston, and The Rainbow Times.
MAKING IS TAKING
In partnership with Harvard's Crossings Gallery, I curated "Making is Taking: Consent in Photography," a photography show that explored consent in the work of four Boston-area photographers. The photographers included Jaypix, Atma, Lucas Hall, and Kat Waterman.
Curatorial statement:
"I came to photography through innate curiosity and the help of knowledgeable friends, not through academia or the established art world of galleries, museums, and publications. Over time as I explored the work of established photographers, I became aware that many of them described their work as 'making images,' instead of using the everyday language, 'taking pictures.'
In the context of an expanding social dialogue about consent, this choice fascinated and irritated me. When photographers say they are 'making' images, I believe they are being truthful about the authorship, creative intent, technique, and originality of their work. It also allows them to sidestep questions about consent in their work, including their subjects’ agency and rights in the taking, adapting, presentation, and sale of images.
These are questions I rigorously examine in my own work, almost always with a degree of uncertainty and discomfort. For this show, I’ve invited four Boston-area photographers I admire to explore the role of consent in their work with human subjects."
