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Sharon Hayes
By: The Editors, Sharon Hayes, and Ross Gay
For Commonwealth, Sharon Hayes created a new work that extends her long interest in how intimate speech can also be political speech...
Common Stakes – Local Perspectives: Philadelphia Contemporary
By: Kerry Bickford and Nicole Pollard
Philadelphia Contemporary was founded in 2016 on the principle that partnerships across the city of Philadelphia and beyond it would strengthen and enrich its curatorial program...
Nelson Rivera
By: The Editors and, nibia pastrana santiago
For Commonwealth, Nelson Rivera wrote a score for a performance that occurred periodically throughout the run of the exhibition at the ICA...
“The pandemic is making it harder but it’s about living”: Mutual Aid in West Philadelphia’s Promise Zone
By: Sojourner Ahebee
On a brisk October morning Shante McLaughlin stood outside the former United Bank building at 37th and Lancaster in Philadelphia...
Mónica Rodríguez
By: The Editors, Mónica Rodríguez, and Pablo Guardiola
Mónica Rodríguez’s project for Commonwealth is an extension of a larger project, Antilles for the Antilleans in which...
Common Stakes – Local Perspectives: Beta-Local
By: Pablo Guardiola and Michael Linares
To begin with, the concept of Commonwealth means something different within the immediate geopolitical context of Beta-Local, which is Puerto Rico and the Caribbean...
Richmond Report
By: Text and images by Brian Palmer
Before the George Floyd uprisings, Richmond’s Confederate monuments had seemed inviolable. On the rare occasions that someone burst their sacred bubble...
Firelei Báez
By: By The Editors, Firelei Báez, Kerry Bickford and Stephanie Smith
Firelei Báez often takes historical documents as a starting point to imagine future interpretations...
The Promise of Common Wealth
By: Kalela Williams
How does a Black-owned bank fulfill the true promise of a commonwealth? To explore this question...
Queering history in After School and Mandinga Times
By: Mabel Rodríguez Centeno
Rita Indiana’s new musical project presents an updated version of our narratives about history...
February 10, 2021
Tanya Lukin Linklater and Tiffany Shaw-Collinge
By: Tanya Lukin Linklater and Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, with Noah Simblist and Stephanie Smith
Commonwealth includes only one pre-existing work—the sculpture Indigenous geometries (2019) by Tanya Lukin Linklater...
February 10, 2021
San Juan and Philadelphia: In Common, There Is No Wealth
By: Joel Cintrón Arbasetti
The crowd clambers up a slope on the side of the highway. They are fleeing from tear gas thrown by the police...
February 10, 2021
“Surviving between failure and queer/cuir maroon writings”
By: Mabel Rodríguez Centeno
An hour less. How strange is the time change from latitudes so hot, so Caribbean, so wild? Of course, that time is not ours. Shall we elope?...
February 10, 2021
A NOTE ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATED SYMBOLS, “TOOLS FOR UNCERTAINTY”
By: Lorraine Rodríguez
The exercise of illustrating something is directly related to the interpretation of the illustrator...
Duron Chavis
By: The Editors, Duron Chavis and Quilian Riano
Food justice activist Duron Chavis believes that fresh, healthy food should be available to all...
Common Stakes – Local Perspectives: Institute for Contemporary Art
By: Noah Simblist and Stephanie Smith
For the ICA, Commonwealth brings up a number of important issues. First, the notion of “the commons” is one that the ICA is centered on...
Alicia Díaz
By: The Editors, Alicia Díaz and Patricia Herrera
Dancer and choreographer Alicia Díaz evokes both history and ritual in her work for Commonwealth...
A Pandemic Reckoning
By: Yarimar Bonilla
In Puerto Rico, 2020 began with a jolt. The month of January brought the onset of an earthquake...
Sharon Hayes
By: The Editors, Sharon Hayes, and Ross Gay
For Commonwealth, Sharon Hayes created a new work that extends her long interest in how intimate speech can also be political speech...
Common Stakes – Local Perspectives: Philadelphia Contemporary
By: Kerry Bickford and Nicole Pollard
Philadelphia Contemporary was founded in 2016 on the principle that partnerships across the city of Philadelphia and beyond it would strengthen and enrich its curatorial program...
Mónica Rodríguez
By: The Editors, Mónica Rodríguez, and Pablo Guardiola
Mónica Rodríguez’s project for Commonwealth is an extension of a larger project, Antilles for the Antilleans in which...
Common Stakes – Local Perspectives: Beta-Local
By: Pablo Guardiola and Michael Linares
To begin with, the concept of Commonwealth means something different within the immediate geopolitical context of Beta-Local, which is Puerto Rico and the Caribbean...
Richmond Report
By: Text and images by Brian Palmer
Before the George Floyd uprisings, Richmond’s Confederate monuments had seemed inviolable. On the rare occasions that someone burst their sacred bubble...
Duron Chavis
By: The Editors, Duron Chavis and Quilian Riano
Food justice activist Duron Chavis believes that fresh, healthy food should be available to all...
Common Stakes – Local Perspectives: Institute for Contemporary Art
By: Noah Simblist and Stephanie Smith
For the ICA, Commonwealth brings up a number of important issues. First, the notion of “the commons” is one that the ICA is centered on...
Nelson Rivera
By: The Editors and, nibia pastrana santiago
For Commonwealth, Nelson Rivera wrote a score for a performance that occurred periodically throughout the run of the exhibition at the ICA...
“The pandemic is making it harder but it’s about living”: Mutual Aid in West Philadelphia’s Promise Zone
By: Sojourner Ahebee
On a brisk October morning Shante McLaughlin stood outside the former United Bank building at 37th and Lancaster in Philadelphia...
Firelei Báez
By: By The Editors, Firelei Báez, Kerry Bickford and Stephanie Smith
Firelei Báez often takes historical documents as a starting point to imagine future interpretations...
The Promise of Common Wealth
By: Kalela Williams
How does a Black-owned bank fulfill the true promise of a commonwealth? To explore this question...
Queering history in After School and Mandinga Times
By: Mabel Rodríguez Centeno
Rita Indiana’s new musical project presents an updated version of our narratives about history...
Alicia Díaz
By: The Editors, Alicia Díaz and Patricia Herrera
Dancer and choreographer Alicia Díaz evokes both history and ritual in her work for Commonwealth...
A Pandemic Reckoning
By: Yarimar Bonilla
In Puerto Rico, 2020 began with a jolt. The month of January brought the onset of an earthquake...
February 10, 2021
Tanya Lukin Linklater and Tiffany Shaw-Collinge
By: Tanya Lukin Linklater and Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, with Noah Simblist and Stephanie Smith
Commonwealth includes only one pre-existing work—the sculpture Indigenous geometries (2019) by Tanya Lukin Linklater...
February 10, 2021
San Juan and Philadelphia: In Common, There Is No Wealth
By: Joel Cintrón Arbasetti
The crowd clambers up a slope on the side of the highway. They are fleeing from tear gas thrown by the police...
February 10, 2021
“Surviving between failure and queer/cuir maroon writings”
By: Mabel Rodríguez Centeno
An hour less. How strange is the time change from latitudes so hot, so Caribbean, so wild? Of course, that time is not ours. Shall we elope?
February 10, 2021
A NOTE ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATED SYMBOLS, “TOOLS FOR UNCERTAINTY”
By: Lorraine Rodríguez
The exercise of illustrating something is directly related to the interpretation of the illustrator...