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Jan 14 2021

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Abrons Art Center

"Las Carpetas looks at the bureaucratic residue of a 40-year-long secret surveillance program that aimed to destroy the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. Through still-lives, archival appropriation, and investigation, Christopher Gregory-Rivera provides a counter-history to the way many understand this period of time and its aftermath. By rescuing, displaying, and photographing the contents of surveillance files, Las Carpetas questions what forces have control over what and how we remember.

This exhibition will be presented in our Main and Upper Galleries. By attending this exhibition, you are required to respect our Community"
https://www.abronsartscenter.org/program/las-carpetas/

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https://www.abronsartscenter.org/program/las-carpetas/
Posted by mer551 on Feb 15 2021

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear short-term goal. Short-term goals tend to be things like: create or repeal a law; get a President impeached; make the city administration repair a sidewalk. A campaign with a short-term goal needs a clear theory of change, complete with targets that can be cajoled or pressured into effecting the goal.
Awareness and bring to light an important movement in Puerto Rico