Free School

September 6, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

“A Possibility”, a multimedia installation addressing the system of mass incarceration in the United States in the context of historic struggles for human rights, was in “Free School”, the 2013 MFA Group Show at Gary Snyder Project Space, New York in May.

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A Possibility – multimedia installation

August 27, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

 A Possibility[i] [audio http://f.cl.ly/items/2d2S1G2L2p2q2C2O3e3o/SF21-NOF-compilation.mp3] After my visit to a state prison in North Carolina, the hollow, trapped eyes of the men in worn out prison uniforms stayed with me along with the miles and miles of chain-link fence, the layers of enclosure that separated them from the rest of life. I could have drowned in the bleakness of their interminable sentences and the withering boredom of their days had I not been able to resurrect a semblance of hope for a […]

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