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Center for Liberatory Practice & Poetry Temporary Headquarters

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the Center’s temporary headquarters hosted by Southern Exposure as part of the group exhibition, We Use Our Hands to Support, curated by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo.

San Francisco, CA, June 2021
A variety of prints, diagrams and distorted color xeroxes of text and image are taped onto a bright yellow wall. Folded prints sit on a bare wood surface below the hanging prints.

This temporary headquarters was installed at Southern Exposure as part of the show, We Use Our Hands To Support, visioned and gathered by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo alongside works by Fronteristxs Collective, Amanda Curreri, and Sam Vernon. This exhibition marked the first public launch of the Center for Liberatory Practice & Poetry and invited friends and community members to contribute to its intitial library collection. The exhibition included a broad range of publications, resources, artworks and ephemera, gathered by Center steward, Kimi Hanauer, throughout various collectively-oriented projects. These included bless our breath, Press Press, Calling All Denizens, among new video-performance works that invited visitors to cultivate portals within the cracks of everyday life. 

A bright yellow painted corner of a concrete exhibition space is covered with text based artworks in orange, red, and black and white newsprint. The large legible black and white newsprint repeats “I want to believe in shared breath.” Several video monitors are interspersed on the wall and there are 3 built wooden tables with two red rectangular cushions. A bright yellow wall and light mauve wall meet at a corner of a concrete floor. A computer monitor and printer sits open to a yellow text document on top of red milk crates. The corner is plastered with a black and white newsprint reading “I want to believe in shared breath” in large text. An assortment of colored text-based prints are also installed across the walls and corner. Two wooden tables are placed near a yellow wall full of colorful prints stapled and stacked one on top of the other. Two screens with videos are hanging on top of the prints. The word 'breath' repeats in bold black letters on the wall. Publications and fabrics lay on top of the tables. Colorful banners hang on a lavender wall in the gallery. The banners display xerox-produced text that is difficult to decipher. The letters 'aaaaa' 'bbbbb' 'uuuuu' 'nnnnn' 'dddddd' 'aaaaaa' 'nnnnn' 'ccccccc' 'eeeeee' repeat in white letters on top of black rectangles. The deck of cards 'bless our breath' is scattered on top of a white fabric. A card reads, 'what does liberation feel like?' and how do we find the future in the present?' on gradient backgrounds. Repeating overlapping prints of xeroxed distorted text in red yellow and black cover a wall. A close up of a colorful banner, which shows the letter 'e' repeating and overlapping in layers of white and black. Two banners and a video of a portal-making video hang on a lavender wall in the gallery. A brick with a red cushion on top as a seat is placed ahead of the screen. A screen hangs on a yellow wall. The right half of the wall is covered in yellow, purple, and red posters which have illegible text. The screen shows an image of two legs hanging beside a the bottom of a tree, with grass and sunlight in the distance. Xerox and spray-painted posters are stapled to the wall with fluid lines of text which are difficult to decipher. A wooden coffee table sits close to the floor, with long red cushions on both sides. It has newspapers and the deck of cards 'bless our breath' on the surface. A zoomed out image of the gallery space faces the corner, lavender wall on the right and bright yellow wall on the left. A person sits beside a computer and parses through the Center's library collection. Banners, tables, and posters are visible. The space feels like a messy and welcoming studio. Two yellow zine stands are placed in the corner. They hold four stacks of publications each, stacked one on top of the other and diagonally facing upwards. A Press Press poster hangs on the wall surrounded by other prints. It reads, "sanctuary is not yet an experience, it is the horizon." An artist book is open on a wooden tabel top. It shows scans of red hand written text repeating on notebook pages. An artist book is open on a wooden table top. It shows a xerox-collage of warped letters and tetures, in black, white, and orange tones. An artist book is open on a wooden talbe. It shows an image of Deepa Iyer's Mapping our Roles in Social Change Ecosystems Map printed on a pink page.
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