Virginia Grise, Adela Licona and Kemi Sijuwade-Ukadike: On art as coalitional gesture.

Where We Meet: Conversations from New Mexico and Beyond

Virginia Grise, Adela Licona and Kemi Sijuwade-Ukadike in conversation with Colette LaBouff explore the following questions: what is possible beyond the play, how to make art accessible to audiences, what should administrative support for artists look like, and what is art in the time of diminishing democracy? Finally, how do all these questions relate to the idea of art as coalitional gesture.

Virginia Grise is a theatre artist. Her body of work includes multimedia performance, dance theater, performance installations, guerilla theater, site specific interventions, and community gatherings.

Adela Licona has decades of experience in higher education, feminist and intersectional leadership, community organizing, and the arts. In her work, she refuses the capitalistic imperative to hierarchy.

Kemi Ukadike is the manager of programs and inclusion at Eyebeam, an organization established in 1998 as a resource for artists to engage creatively with technology in an experimental setting. Ukadike advocates for the Fractal Fellows, a fellowship program at the heart of an initiative called: The Democracy Machine: Artists and Self-Governance in the Digital Age.