Silence.

As an interracial couple, we are looking to the history of gradual emancipation and the Underground Railroad to speak about race relations today Silence: New Haven is the first iteration of a larger ongoing meta-artwork that engages historic sites as well as traditional art-world venues. We are investigating the role of silence as a conscious, active civic decision. This type of silence in its most toxic form was as much an element of slavery as it is an element of contemporary racism. Like our other installations, Silence is a work of performative sculpture that reflects the complexity of cha...