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Artist Spotlight: The Laundromat Project


As a performance studies guru, i’ve always been particularly interested in work that is nestled in the crevasses of politics and art. “Performance” as a mode of human communication is most radical when it speaks to the lived experiences of communities on the ground, and when it can be incorporated into people’s everyday realities.

The Laundromat Project is a brilliant Bedstuyvesant, Brooklyn based art movement that seeks to bring art into some of the most ordinary spaces that poor and working class Black folks regularly occupy. The project utilizes black Laundromats as a way of broadening how visual art is usually exhibited and engaged. Thus, Laundromats are used as spaces where black folks can create and critique art without having to enter a museum (which are needless to say, notoriously racist and classist spaces) or leaving their indigenous community.

The Laundromat Project was created by Rise Wilson, a former graduate student in Africana Studies here at NYU.

Check out he Laundromat Project at www.laundromatproject.org/

Posted by the young people's professor on 2/28/2007 at 1:19:00 PM |

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