CHRISTY FERRATO OFF THE PAGE

As a poet and an artist, I am influenced by Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Joy Harjo and other artists who work with poetry in performative contexts. My work with poetry off the page incorporates common materials, sound and source texts to examine the connection between discarded history and social injustice. In an era of overt factual distortion and censorship, I am especially interested in the importance of preserving historical truth.

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Caught in the crossfire of being a fighter pilot's daughter with an objecting conscience, my childhood provided the underpinnings for work that is simultaneously deeply personal and universal. The question of how we might transcend our stained histories is the foundation of a collection of work that documents and archives information related to the societal impact of events including the Saffron Revolution, the Long Walk, post 911 veterans returning home, discrimination, immigration, and school massacres, and explores the relationship between text and a history that isn't so easy to narrate.

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