Related Tactics’ contribution to the Dear America project

update 2:

Here are some shots of Related Tactics’s contributions to Dear America at Montalvo:

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update: Dear America will be having a closing event at Montalvo Arts Center on Thursday, August 12, 7:30-9:30pm. Reserve a space and get more info here.

Project lead and founder, Christy Chan, also organized a series of site responsive projections at San Jose city hall, an area where there once stood a series of Chinatowns that were burnt down and erased, and still stands on unceded Muwekma Ohlone lands. This was Related Tactics’s contribution to that evening’s interventions.

White text projected on a tall civic building reading, "How do you profit from this unceded Muwekma Ohlone land, erased Chinatowns, and displaced histories?"

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Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson) was invited to contribute a text piece to the Dear America project, a series of projected works produced by Christy Chan addressing the rise of anti-Asian violence and interrelated struggles against anti-Black state violence and white supremacy. The series features work by Christy Chan, Cathy Lu, Jenifer Wofford, Christine Wong Yap, and Mel Chin with For Freedoms. Christy is setting up a number of projections around the Bay in the coming weeks.

Dear America has received press from a number of sources, including this one in SF Weekly.

light projected text piece on tall facade of building in downtown Oakland, which in white on flourescent pink background reads in struck through text, "Assimilation / Erasure / Exclusion / Violence / White Supremacy" and on the last line in slightly larger text and no strikethrough, "Justice." At the bottom in smaller text reads Related Tactics.light projected text piece on tall facade of building in downtown Oakland, which in white on flourescent pink background reads in struck through text, "Assimilation / Erasure / Exclusion / Violence / White Supremacy" and on the last line in slightly larger text and no strikethrough, "Justice." At the bottom in smaller text reads Related Tactics. In the foreground you can see Lake Merritt and a brightly lit fountain in the middle of the water.

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