Related Tactics

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.