Oct 042016
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
6 to 8pm
Carlos Martiel’s new performance Maze reflects on the current system of mass incarceration and racial discrimination in the United States, where a disproportionate number of the imprisoned are African Americans and Latino immigrants. Focusing on forced labor within the prison system, and the threat of loss of privileges and solitary confinement for prisoners who refuse to work, Martiel takes a position of stillness and draws parallels between current prison policies and conditions in the US and historical systems of oppression in European history.
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The 8th Floor | 17 W 17th St, New York, NY 10011