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On the occasion of the 2024 Curatorial Practice thesis exhibition Absolute Memory: An Archive of Softness, the curators host a letter-writing event for incarcerated survivors that draws attention to the lived experience of incarcerated survivors in California prisons. Working with Survived & Punished, a grassroots organization with Bay Area presence dedicated to the defense and care of people imprisoned after surviving domestic violence, participants write letters to currently incarcerated individuals, aiming to usher softness into mutuality through the power of interpersonal connection.CCA Graduate Design student Cole Ryder designs three unique cards for this program, which will also have a dedicated space in the exhibition’s Reading Room for sustained engagement. During the event, participants have the opportunity to learn more about carceral dismantling from an individual and community-based lens from Survived & Punished representative Neda Said.
Guiding question:
Through the gentleness and resilience in shared humanity, how may we imagine the dismantling of oppressive systems?
About Survived & Punished:
“Our coalition of freedom campaigns and organizations believes that policing, immigration enforcement and the prison industrial complex are violent institutions that primarily target poor communities of color. They are fundamentally racist, anti-family, anti-trans/queer, anti-woman, anti-Black, anti-Native, anti-poor and anti-immigrant…It is in this context that self-defense and other survival actions are often criminalized.”
– “Analysis,” Survived & Punished
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
360 Kansas St (Between 16th & 17th Streets), San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94103