F R e E P a L e sT I nE

Truly, one of the greatest evocative and provocative living contemporary artists, Survivance/resistance/futurist writers, and performance poets,

Diné artist Demian DinéYazhi’ ingeniously embedded “Free Palestine” in the flickering letters of their powerful, poemic-neon artwork ⁦at the Whitney Museum’s Whitney Biennial

we must stop imagining destruction + extraction + deforestation + cages + torture + displacement + surveillance + genocide!

we must stop predicting apocalypses + fascist governments + capitalist hierarchies!

we must pursue + predict + imagine routes toward liberation!

~ Demian DinéYazhi’

poemic-neon artwork: “we must stop imagining apocalypse/genocide + we must imagine liberation.”

we must stop imagining destruction + extraction + deforestation + cages + torture + displacement + surveillance + genocide!

photo by: Nora Gomez-Strauss

we must stop predicting apocalypses + fascist governments + capitalist hierarchies!

photo by: Nick Mathews

we must pursue + predict + imagine routes toward liberation!

photo by: Field Kallop

the institution & curators were unaware;

yet “Free Palestine”

was intermittently revealed for those with the patience to observe the piece

the entire artwork faces out toward the Hudson River for all to see:

screenshot of photo by Karsten Moran for the NYT with the embedded message “free palestine”: the letters spelling the two words of declaration and resistance isolated and illuminated in neon

FREE PALESTINE!

this is a gift article from the profane and goddamned New York Times, but I suggest adding the GitLab extension to bypass all paywalls of enabling, lying, war-and-genocide-and-capitalism-complicit media.

also, see DinéYazhi’’s piece on permanent exhibit at the Eiteljörg Museum in Indianapolis:

“Every American Flag Is A Warning Sign”

see creation stories

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