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I Heard it Before I Ever Saw it: Tattooing and the US Prison System (2022)
1media/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez.pngmedia/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez.pngmedia/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez.png2022-04-11T17:51:45+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08417Explore tattooing's relationship to prisonplain2023-08-22T15:55:51+00:0041.8781, -87.6298Tamara Santibañez01/01/1980 - 05/01/2022Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
Tattooing is a practice that intervenes upon one of the most politically contested territories: the body. Interdisciplinary artist Tamara Santibañez examines the power of tattooing as it encounters the prison industrial complex, conducting oral histories of narrators with firsthand experiences with these encounters. From arrest intake and police profiling, to learning to tattoo on the inside, to being forbidden to tattoo by conditions of parole, these narratives illuminate lesser-known aspects of state control and people’s resistance strategies to reclaim autonomy.
1media/Promo_Chalermkraivuth_LoveIsABustlingHighway - Panchalay Chalermkraivuth.pngmedia/Promo_Chalermkraivuth_LoveIsABustlingHighway 1.pngmedia/Promo_Chalermkraivuth_LoveIsABustlingHighway - Panchalay Chalermkraivuth.png2022-04-11T13:47:56+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08(Love is) a bustling highway: Mutual aid across prison walls (2022)Carlin Liu Zia37Find out what abolitionist care looks likeplain2023-08-22T15:47:52+00:0039.963, -90.7542Chalay Chalermkraivuth01/01/2013 - 04/01/2022Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
1media/Promo_Takayasu_RadicalEmpathy - Sach Takayasu 2.jpegmedia/Promo_Takayasu_RadicalEmpathy - Sach Takayasu.jpegmedia/Promo_Takayasu_RadicalEmpathy - Sach Takayasu 2.jpeg2022-04-15T19:37:36+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Microphones and Brushes—An Exercise in Radical Empathy (2022)Carlin Liu Zia21Recreate–together–what you’ve never experiencedplain2022-05-09T01:43:56+00:0036.2048, 138.2529Sach Takayasu01/01/1927 - 12/31/1952Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
1media/Promo_Foster_Spectrogram - Sage Foster.pngmedia/Promo_Foster_Spectrogram - Sage Foster.pngmedia/Promo_Foster_Spectrogram - Sage Foster.png2025-04-06T20:58:11+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Spectrogram (2025)Carlin Liu Zia17An interactive exhibit about painting, memory, and iterative meaning-makingplain2025-04-21T17:07:26+00:00Sage FosterCarlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
1media/Promo_Seeley_Heirlooming_square.pngmedia/Promo_Seeley_Heirlooming - Hilary Seeley.jpgmedia/Promo_Seeley_Heirlooming_square.png2025-04-07T13:14:12+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08‘Heirlooming’: Rethinking Memory and Relationality through Embodiment and Collapsed Time (2025)Carlin Liu Zia13A multimedia art exhibit introducing a decolonial theory of memory and method for its exploration and understandingplain2025-04-21T17:31:16+00:00Hilary SeeleyCarlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08WebCarlin Liu Zia8Exhibits visualized in an interactive webplain2023-04-27T19:43:14+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Resilience and growthCarlin Liu Zia3Theme Tag: Resilience and growthplain2022-04-29T15:11:29+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
1media/feast.jpegmedia/feast.jpegmedia/feast.jpeg2022-04-15T13:43:53+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a0820-30 minutesCarlin Liu Zia3Multi-course meal - exhibits you should plan to take some time for, at least 20-30 minutesplain2023-04-07T20:40:30+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Freedom, liberationCarlin Liu Zia2Theme Tag: Freedom, Liberationplain2023-04-13T22:05:39+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:26+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Edited AudioCarlin Liu Zia1Medium Tag: Edited Audioplain2021-05-12T00:27:26+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:26+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08VideoCarlin Liu Zia1Medium Tag: Videoplain2021-05-12T00:27:26+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Care, healing, wellbeingCarlin Liu Zia1Theme Tag: Care, healing, wellbeingplain2021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08LGBTQIA+, Queer, GenderyCarlin Liu Zia1Theme Tag: LGBTQIA+, Queer, Genderyplain2021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08RaceCarlin Liu Zia1Theme Tag: Raceplain2021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Trauma & testimonyCarlin Liu Zia1Theme Tag: Trauma & testimonyplain2021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12022-04-29T14:55:35+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Abolition, prison, incarcerationCarlin Liu Zia1Theme tag: Abolition, prison, incarcerationplain2022-04-29T14:55:35+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12022-04-29T14:56:40+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Activism and organizingCarlin Liu Zia1Theme tag: Activism and organizingplain2022-04-29T14:56:40+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:26+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Co-creation & shared learningCarlin Liu Zia1Medium Tag: Co-creation & shared learningplain2021-05-12T00:27:26+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
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1media/Promo_Chalermkraivuth_LoveIsABustlingHighway - Panchalay Chalermkraivuth.pngmedia/Promo_Chalermkraivuth_LoveIsABustlingHighway 1.pngmedia/Promo_Chalermkraivuth_LoveIsABustlingHighway - Panchalay Chalermkraivuth.png2022-04-11T13:47:56+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08(Love is) a bustling highway: Mutual aid across prison walls (2022)37Find out what abolitionist care looks likeplain2023-08-22T15:47:52+00:0039.963, -90.7542Chalay Chalermkraivuth01/01/2013 - 04/01/2022Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
1media/Promo_PandzaChris_NobodysDiary_Square - Chris Pandza.jpegmedia/Promo_PandzaChris_NobodysDiary_Square - Chris Pandza.jpegmedia/Promo_PandzaChris_NobodysDiary_Square - Chris Pandza.jpeg2022-04-12T00:09:08+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Nobody's Diary (2022)14Find out what happens when you let AI read your diary.plain2022-05-06T00:34:44+00:0043.6532, -79.383209/01/2021 - 05/01/2022Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
12021-05-12T00:27:27+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08"Tell me about that world": speculative archives, black feminist listening practices (2021)2Explore the liberation landscapes of community care practitioners in NYCplain2021-08-09T17:50:16+00:0040.7128, -74.0060Taylor Thompson03/01/2020 - 05/31/2021Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
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1media/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez_thumb.png2022-04-11T17:18:55+00:002022 Promo Santibañez Tattooing and the US Prison System1A ruled notecard with "I heard it before I ever saw it" written on it in all caps, in pencil. A faint transparent image of a drawing of a pocket watch by Matt Sopron underlays the notecard.media/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez.pngplain2022-04-11T17:18:55+00:00
