Host Taylor interviews kai lumumba barrow–artist, organizer, and founder of Gallery of the Streets–about her work, specifically the visual opera ECOHYBRIDITY: LOVE SONG FOR NOLA and her current work, [b]REACH: Adventures in Heterotopia. Discussion covers broader themes of abolitionist aesthetics, the need to question our historic patterns and practices re: organizing, and adapting performance and organizing work to pandemic reality.
This show is part of a series running through the end of 2020, new episodes published weekly, in which I revisit interviews taken during a radio show road trip in the summer of 2015—checking back in with those activists, organizers and artists I met to see how their lives and work have adapted to changing times. You can find more information about that project at praxisradio.com/praxis.
In the last part of the show, two partial interviews from 2015 that focus on imaginative alternatives are shared–one from Portland, OR with Daisy, who at the time was working with a new worker-owned coop and one with Stephen and Jamie (Flobots) about their then-new project, No Enemies which focused on bringing song back to social movements.
Find a full transcript of this episode here.
For more information on kai’s work and other material referenced (in roughly chronological order) check out the links below:
*[b]REACH website: https://www.breachadventuresinheterotopia.org/
*Gallery of the Streets review in Scalawag magazine by Ra Malika Imhotep: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2019/04/gallery-of-the-streets-review/?
*Critical Resistance website: http://criticalresistance.org/