The Hall of Lament : NO words necessary + Call and Response + the Response was visceral: “POWERFUL!” and crying +

FOR ONLY PRIVATE VIEWING

THROUGH

WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY

The STAND YOUR GROUND FOR TRAYVON MARTIN installation

was a  response to a tragedy.

 A call out for social justice, moral courage and truth.

As the internationally renown Chinese artist

 Ai  Wei Wei

 affirms/proclaims in his art:

Art’s real context

 is  not simply the market

or

the institution,

but,

 what is happening now,

 around us,

 in the real world.

 

Thank you to all stepped up and participated.

This is Y/OUR action toward a blueprint of diversity, equity

and

 a resolution to break the vicious cycle of fear and hate:

a challenge to break open our biases

 and

 move toward the practice

of calling out the angels within our

 humanity

Thank you to the advocacy and faith of all who loaned their hoodies.

Special gratitude to:

Janet Dirks; Leo, owner of Shish; Mary Reyelts; Robert Nash; Rob Matteson,

Stephanie Shaw; Rob Carlson; and my sonic art collaborator, Dan Choma

The red hoodie represented Trayvon

whose body was tagged as

John Doe

for 2 days.

The printed statement below the “toe tag” was:

11 APRIL 2012

After the announcement of George Zimmerman being charged with 2nd degree murder, Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, thanked everyone.

She began by telling people how all she wanted was an arrest.

She then addressed the issue of race that had clouded her son’s death by speaking from her heart:

“I just want to speak

 from my heart

 to

 your heart.

 Because a heart has no color.

 It’s not black.

 It’s not white.

 It’s red.

 And

 I want to say

 thank you

 from

 my heart

to

 your heart.

 

 Thank you.”

Sonics:

a continuous loop of

Mahalia Jackson

 singing

His Eye is on the Sparrow

and

Aretha Franklin

singing

I’ll Fly Away.

A map of the states

that passed and uphold

the STAND YOUR GROUND  law:

Over 40 individuals

 stepped up

and

 loaned their hoodies

worldwide.

The ones indicated give to charity

will be given to the

 Harriet Tubman Center

– a shelter for families of domestic violence

and their undisclosed “safe houses”.

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