WHAT IF WE BUILT OUR WORLD AROUND HEALING? This question is at the core of The Healing Project, explored through a constellation of creative works by artists aimed at dismantling structural violence. In this listening session and community workshop, multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes - the executive/artistic director of The Healing Project - will present excerpts of sound-based works from The Healing Project and will share the processes that the organization has built around sound as a framework of honesty and self-definition.
This work is also accompanied by a capsule exhibition of artistic works created collaboratively by community members of The Healing Project, many of whom are currently & formerly incarcerated. This work is on view throughout The Welcome Pavilion and The Reach. The exhibition in particular features the artists Peter Mukuria aka Pitt Panther (incarcerated in Baltimore) and Keith LaMar (incarcerated in Ohio), and seeks to raise awareness about their struggles for freedom.
Artist Statement
“The Healing Project is a project I’ve been working on for 10 years, and it’s my try at speaking directly to the many damages that our society’s systems of prison, detention, and structural violence do to people, and to the many beautiful, different and deep ways that people figure out how to heal themselves and others from the things that they go through, in spite of it all. It’s a testament to resiliency, imagination, honesty, and complexity. This constellation of pieces that you see, hear, and feel here is the result of the hard and careful and passionate work of over 100 people around the country who courageously and beautifully shared their stories with me, and over 50 different artistic contributors who helped me bring these stories & ideas to life. My hope is that, as you listen to these voices, observe these pieces, and experience this art, you will be inspired by the truths that folks are telling and the ideas they generously share about how to build spaces and processes for healing. I hope this project can contribute to the ongoing struggle towards an abolitionist future.”
