Whisper Or Shout: Artists in the Social Sphere

“Whisper Or Shout” features the work of nine artists who engage with a range of critical contemporary social and political issues. Each of the artists will bring different issues to the table, including police violence, homelessness, gentrification, and cultural self-determination, to name a few. In presenting these projects, the exhibition will underscore the varied forms of communication and language that artists devise as strategies of protest, education, documentation and/or information sharing.

The artists exhibited in Whisper or Shout exemplify an activist impulse that has surged in the visual arts in the past two decades. The show is not exclusively focused on social practice art, as it is known, but many, if not all of the artists deploy some of its strategies and techniques. Others work with more traditional art forms such as photography or video to pursue social projects.

They include posters, music, speech, silence, photography, computer languages, and apps. Central to the exhibition will be a series of public programs including artist performances and workshops.

Artists: APT artist Shaun Leonardo, Sol Aramendi, Matt Black, Taeyoon Choi, Alicia Grullon, Brendan Fernandes, Interference Archive, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, , and Kenneth Pietrobono.