Memory/Cycle
2020
In a series of visual storytelling workshops with participants from four distinct groups, each with a unique relationship to prison, Memory/Cycle engaged corrections officers, legal advocates, formerly incarcerated individuals, and court involved youth to translate their personal narratives into performative gestures without the use of words. Conveying a different kind of truth through their bodies, these individuals from seemingly disparate experiences sought familiarity in each other’s gestures.
By locating a shared humanity in their lived experiences, these individuals also speak to the lack of humanity felt by a teenage boy held in juvenile detention during the dangers of covid-19.”
In a series of visual storytelling workshops with participants from four distinct groups, each with a unique relationship to prison, Memory/Cycle engaged corrections officers, legal advocates, formerly incarcerated individuals, and court involved youth to translate their personal narratives into performative gestures without the use of words. Conveying a different kind of truth through their bodies, these individuals from seemingly disparate experiences sought familiarity in each other’s gestures.
By locating a shared humanity in their lived experiences, these individuals also speak to the lack of humanity felt by a teenage boy held in juvenile detention during the dangers of covid-19.”