Possible Dialogues: Artistic Research on Countering the Brutality of Gun Violence through exhibitions, public discussions and workshops
Stamps Gallery is organizing an exhibition featuring the experimental film Impossible Conversations, directed by Stamps faculty David Chung and filmmaker Pratap Rughani. The exhibition will be complemented by a “Dialogue and Research Room,” offering research materials on gun culture, racialized hate crimes, and restorative justice.
Abstract
Stamps Gallery will develop a series of programs – exhibitions, public discussions and workshops – to investigate how to build meaningful restorative conversations that address the root issues of structural racism that lead to firearm injuries such as mass shootings, hate crimes as well as wars. These programs robust dialogues and research-through-praxis with participants from diverse subjectivities such as survivors of firearm injuries, to gun violence prevention advocates, artists and health practitioners and social workers. These programs will offer key strategies to the team at Stamps Gallery to assess – what worked and what could be most impactful – to enable Stamps Gallery access external substantial funding through Joyce Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation, Terra Foundation for American Arts, Mellon Foundation for a a multi-year program that focuses on the potential of artistic research in reducing gun violence through an exhibition, public programs and publication in 2027-2028 to address firearm injury prevention.