Gestures of Defiance

I'm an artist, educator and activist particularly interested in learning from tactics, props and gestures used as protests. I use this blog as a platform to archive and communicate examples of what I call 'gestures of defiance'-exciting, urgent and relevant actions that link protest histories and present radical potentials. On this blog I'm simply compiling and reposting examples I find as they happen. Months may go by with out a post but the blog as an archive is still active.

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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Jefferson Pinder's "Dark Matter"

Jefferson Pinder is an artist I met while we both lived in Washington, DC.
His work amazed me then and it continues to inspire.

"DARK MATTER"
2014
Featuring Lionz of Zion

"Under bright police lights, break-dancers dressed in black perform a series of actions that references the Ferguson events from August of this year. In this work B-boys physically reference the actions from the murder that took place during August 9th and the ensuing riots. This performance pairs athletic movement with social struggle."

(Stills)