“Omen” featured in group show, EXPLICIT PROTOCOL

November 27, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

The piece, “Omen/ He Dances in the Courtyard of the Impertinent” was on display in Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca, NY from October 21 to November 1, 2013, in the group show “Explicit Protocol” Decades ago, “justice” was already an ambiguous term when applied to the carceral system of the United States, with its overt and inherent biases of class and particularly of race. In 1967, in a letter to his father, from solitary confinement, George Jackson had a clear concept of […]

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strange (& bitter) crop

September 6, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

Solo show, September 9 -13, 2013. Experimental Gallery, Olive Tjaden Hall, Ithaca, NY. Opening Reception: September 9, 2013. 5-8pm.

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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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Pacotille and the Prison Industrial Complex

August 23, 2013 by Mariamma Kambon

W. E. B. DuBois, in his posthumously published (1968) Autobiography, said “There is a desperate need … to oppose this national racket of railroading to jails and chain gangs the poor, friendless and black.” The United States has the highest level of incarceration in the world, with a disproportional number of people of color behind bars. More African Americans are under the control of the correctional system of the United States today than were enslaved before emancipation. Native Americans, in […]

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