Ephemera from artist Melanie Griffin's event, WHERE ARE YOU FROM? - An Interactive Dissection and Re-imagining of Geography, Borders, and Home, part of Women's Center for Creative Work's 2015 project at The Armory Center for the Arts, The World that Begins Where Our Skin Ends.
Map with participant markings from interactive performance. Folded down to approx. 9 in x 13in.
From The Armory Center's website description of the event:
Melanie Griffin will create a textile map that repurposes the political and earth-made lines of continents and uses the hand-made to create new spaces. Imbued with an emotional, socio-political, and fantastical context, the "map" will have space for people to draw and write their responses to questions and conversations around a theme of "Where Are You From? The project will come to a close with a conversation and group involvement with the piece exploring ideas and feelings around ancestry, personal and family history, diaspora, belonging, uncertainty, and displacement amongst others, that will hopefully create a dialogue around intersectional issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability and the ways capital and settler-colonialism/ imperialism shapes the stories of "where we are from" and how we define home.
A Conversation about Origins, Home, History and Power
Sunday, October 25th, 7-9pm
Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church
301 North Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
A facilitated conversation with members of various LA social justice organizations about how structural power, history, and culture influence the question, "Where are you from?" Concludes with an interactive art happening!
–A.R. 4/20/2025
