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Artist Statement
Related Tactics is a conceptual space where we confront systemic and institutional racism or injustice that influence our immediate socio-cultural lived experience. Our collaborative practice often carries the spirit of a print collective: our work tends to manifest in text, posters, and publications that utilize direct address to interrogate critical issues. We also favor working iteratively, in multiples that can be disseminated freely and widely, maximizing audience access and opportunities to highlight and create opportunities for other artists. The material objects we create and the processes behind them are a mechanism for facilitating dialogue and exchange. We gather people and their work in order to create space for knowledge building, sharing, and empathy, especially between communities of color who have been placed at odds against one another in a white supremacist culture. At the heart of this work is the value we place in working collectively, a strategic position in the face of the neoliberal ethos of radical individualism stamped into our education and lives.
Bio
Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson) is a multidisciplinary collective of artists of color creating work together at the intersection of race and culture. Formed in 2015, Related Tactics projects utilize a variety of modes— sculpture, writing, print, and social engagement, and curatorial tactics—to explore the connections between art, movements for equity & justice, and the public. We create opportunities to gather, amplify, and connect a multiplicity of voices in our work that draws upon community-facing, site-specific research to invite reflection, social action, and envision a more just society.
Our projects have been exhibited and supported by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Southern Exposure Gallery. Related Tactics was announced as Kala Art Institute’s 2021-2022 Print Public artists, were awarded the Craft Research Center Artist Fellowship by the Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, and a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Initiative grant.
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Photo: University of San Francisco
Photo: Marc Tutti
Photo: Minoosh Zomorodinia
The 2021-22 season of GEEX Talks is supported by the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, Bullseye Glass Co., Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, His Glassworks, Pilchuck Glass School, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Secret Goblet Society, and Wet Dog Glass.
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