Political Statements and Structural Critique
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- Political Statements and Structural Critique
- Description
- Works in this collection address systemic racism and the path to justice. This collection includes a wide range of imagery including a critique of capitalism.
Collection Items
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"A Budget is a Moral Document" by Jordan Hamilton and Samuel Ero-Phillips and panels with wheat pastes by Rogue CitizenA series of large black and white prints on panels located at Hook and Ladder Theater, adjacent to the 3rd police precinct in Minneapolis, which was abandoned and burned on May 28, 2020. The prints are a combination of text and images. All of the images have text and decorative elements in the top portion with flames and abstracted images of protestors on the lower portion, unifying the works as a series. Three prints include portraits of Black men killed by the police in the Twin Cities: Philando Castille, George Floyd, and Daunte Wright. These panels include text reading "Black Lives Matter." One image shows three fists raised in the air with text reading "Minneapolis United." An image of an anatomical heart is joined with text reading "Rethink Not Reform." A phoenix rising from the flames is accompanied by the text "We Rise Up Together." An image with protestors reads "No Justice, No Peace."
A large mural reading "A Budget is a Moral Document" by Jordan Hamilton and Samuel Ero-Phillips is located on the side of a building seen in the distance. -
"A Budget is a Moral Document" by Jordan Hamilton and Samuel Ero-Phillips and panels with wheat pastes by Rogue Citizen
A plywood panel (presumably by Rogue Citizen) reading "Justice | Liberation" on the facade of Hook and Ladder, located next to the 3rd Police Precinct in Minneapolis. The fence is covered with large wheat pastes by Rogue Citizen. A large mural reading "A Budget is a Moral Document" by Jordan Hamilton and Samuel Ero-Phillips is located on the side of a building seen in the distance. On this day, a new mural was going up on the front and side of the building. A yellow arc is seen covering the mural by Jordan Hamilton and Samuel Ero-Phillips. -
Graffiti on plywood, glass, and brick
Graffiti on plywood, glass, brick, and pavement focusing on anti-policing messages. This includes "Lets Block Those Cameras," "Cops Kill So Does Gentrification, We Don't Work You Can't Make Us," "Police Are the Domestic Terrorists," and "Amnesty For All!" There are additional texts and images all around. -
Prison and flag
This plywood panel is painted with an image of a Black figure on the ground wearing a stripped jumpsuit, reminiscent of a prison uniform. The upper third of the panel is taken up with an American flag. the red strips are dripping and create the illusion of prison bars. Graffiti read "Defund the Police," "Fuck the 13th Amendment," "George Floyd," and "Stop Killing Us." The are posters reading "Cops Aren't Workers No Police Unions No Cops in Labor" with a bristling black cat eating a police car. -
Stand Up For Black Women
A plywood board with graffiti reading "ACAB," "I Love You," and "Stand Up for Black Women." There is also a black and white photographic portrait, a sign about Covid-19, and a sign that said "Police don't belong in the labor movement!" -
Protest graffiti
Graffiti on a plywood panel. There is a picture of a Black woman in silhouette with a heart. A stencil read "BLACK LIVES MATTER." There is text reading "A homosexual being attacked by a home should b a crime Boe was attacked and went to jail" and "spread love not hate." -
They must pay with BLOOD graffiti
A plywood panel with layers of graffiti. One layer reads "Long Live Revolution." "They must Pay with BLOOD" is written on top of this. Other text includes "Pay For People." -
Reform Is Dead graffiti
Graffiti on a plywood board reading "Reform Is Dead" with an anarchy symbol for the A. In smaller lettering, there is graffiti reading "Abolition Not Reform" and "ACAB"










