Ready (2019)

Related Tactics with Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Janaki Jagannath, & Cece Carpio; Cute Rage Press (Aram Han Sifuentes & Ishita Dharap); Rebecca Goldschmidt; Vero Majano; Nyeema Morgan & Mike Cloud; and Kim Nguyen
multimedia installation with artist created interactive elements and takeaways
2019

Ready presents mobile stations created by Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson) that gather and deploy a collection of artists’ interventions, tools, and strategies that can be used to interrupt systems of marginalization, exploitation, and erasure, large and small. The assembled materials range from the poetic to prompts for guerilla actions, from stickers to seeds, prompts for literary analysis to the building blocks for temporary gatherings, but are all linked through their interest in encouraging individual agency in challenging everyday moments where we are often caught off guard or isolated from allies. Engage with and take home these tools to use them beyond the exhibition.

In addition to the pieces commissioned by the six artists/collaborative teams, Related Tactics was inspired by the work of Amiri Baraka, whose poem Understanding Readiness helped to shape key elements of the installation and prompts to audiences.

Exhibition history:
Ready, Berkeley Art Center (2019)

installation documentation by Weston Teruya, opening/activation documentation by Minoosh Zomorodinia