Resisting Incarceration Culture

An Exhibition of California College of the Arts Students, Alumni, Faculty, & Their Collaborators

Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts: Oakland, CA

January 21 - 30, 2020


Organized by Malic Amalya

Co-curated by Annah Anti-Palindrome, Michael Washington, & Malic Amalya

We have aimed for an exhibition that espouses an abolitionist politic that undoes our attachments to the cultural logic that makes the prison industrial complex appear normal and a necessary remedy to violence.

The art included in this show helps us imagine a world where prisons, immigration centers, jails, courtrooms, internment camps, and other interlocking systems of incarceration are not seen as solutions to harm, but as reproducing harm on systemic levels.

We have chosen works that encourage us to desire a different world where violence against the most vulnerable of society can be ended without prisons and where the roots of violence can be addressed in ways that do not rely on the police state or aggressive regimes of captivity. 


 

Artists

Claudia Bernardi and Central American Incarcerated Minors

Anthea Black and the Queers Crash the Beat Collective

Coaxoch, The Decolonial School at CCA

Valentina Miranda Di Castri, Beatriz Escobar, Arthur Gonzalez

Shylah Pacheco Hamilton, Angela Lutz, Claudia Lutz

Jason McDonald, Pallavi Sharma, Karen Seneferu, Katie Smart

Allison Smith, Tina Takemoto, Sonya Thorne, Consuelo Tupper

Amanda Walters, Christine Wang, & Samaiyah Zareef-Mustafa

 

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