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2022 Promo Santibañez Tattooing and the US Prison System
1media/Promo_Santibanez_I heard it - Tamara Waite-Santibanez_thumb.png2022-04-11T17:18:55+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a0841A 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.plain2022-04-11T17:18:55+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08
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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+00:00I Heard it Before I Ever Saw it: Tattooing and the US Prison System (2022)17Explore tattooing's relationship to prisonplain2023-08-22T15:55:51+00:0041.8781, -87.6298Tamara Santibañez01/01/1980 - 05/01/2022
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.
