VISUAL ART | FRIDAY, APRIL 28 | 8:30 PM | FREE
Project Interchange
Live texted conversation between Santa Fe and Albuquerque
Project Interchange is an event that brings together poets from Albuquerque and Santa Fe in a performative, creative dialogue about connection and community and will occur simultaneously in both cities. This project is organized by Friends of the Orphan Signs in collaboration with Axle Contemporary.
The Albuquerque portion of this poetic conversation will take place at FUSION | The Meadow. Poets in each city will text each other via a live group message which will be projected onto a large-scale outdoor wall. The conversation will expand from guiding questions about our relationship to one another. Poets in Albuquerque include Sara Rivera, Valerie Martinez, Beca Alderete Baca, and Amaris Ketcham. Poets in Santa Fe include Edie Tsong, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, and more.
Though only separated by 56 miles, Santa Fe and Albuquerque are divided by socio-economic and cultural factors which inform our experiences in each place. Project Interchange seeks to explore this gap and to offer expansive dialogue about those factors that separate us and those that connects us. This project offers a space that seeks to expand how we understand and connect to each other and ourselves.
FOS operates the project website interchange.city and will continue to utilize this online platform to supplement physical iterations of the project. The public is invited to use the website as a platform for submitting responses.
About Friends of the Orphan Signs (FOS)
Friends of the Orphan Signs (FOS) is a collaborative public art organization of artist-educators that creatively revitalizes abandoned or unused road signs with artwork, with a particular focus along historic Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. FOS facilitates innovative collaborations and educational workshops with local communities with the aim of designing new imagery to install in the signs as public art pieces. We work to revitalize the visual landscape of underserved urban neighborhoods while centering the voices of its residents. Our signs are public, accessible on foot and in car, and are on major thoroughfares throughout Albuquerque.
ABOUT Axle Contemporary
Housed in the back of a custom retrofitted 1970 aluminum stepvan, Axle Contemporary is an art gallery on wheels. We exhibit installation art; performance; works on paper including photography, drawing, and painting; and occasionally sculptures. Our mobility allows us to visit both typical art venues and unusual ones, such as schools, empty lots, restaurants, grocery stores, and city streets. Axle Contemporary was founded in 2010 by artists Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman as a collaborative work of art and an innovative vehicle for arts distribution. It has since grown beyond the confines of the mobile exhibition space and also includes book publishing, alternative methods of creation, and dissemination of contemporary arts in the public sphere. Axle Contemporary is supported in part by Axle Projects, Inc, a 501 (c)(3) corporation , which is made possible by your donations.