Gallery Aferro Co-Founder Emma Wilcox talks about art, audience, community, power dynamics, resistance, and the "strange and enduring power of arts experiences" such as the Aferro Mobile Portrait Studio. Gallery Aferro, founded in 2003 by artists Evonne M. Davis and Emma Wilcox, is located in downtown Newark NJ.
Emma Wilcox, Gallery Director/Co-Founder, is a working artist and writer. Over the past decade, she has worked with Gallery Aferro Co-Founder Evonne M. Davis to develop hundreds of exhibitions, artist residencies, events, education programs, public art initiatives, and publications. Our notable fluency with collaborative partnerships derives from a belief that we are part of a network working for systemic change in our community. The gallery has exhibited: an artist food truck about climate change, hacked roomba vacuum cleaners, motion and color tracked live tropical fish, an interactive responsive projection of every street in Newark, a full size sod lawn that needed to be mowed, music for a freight elevator, and a model of an eclipse powered by a foot pedal.
As a photographer she is concerned with environmental justice, land usage, eminent domain, and the role of individual memory in the creation of local history.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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