PH: Wear Orange for a Day
As a collaborative effort with Intersection for the Arts programming 2008 The Prison Project, PLAIN HUMAN produced an artistic-campaign entitled Wear Orange for A Day: Prisoners Awareness day. The campaign invited families, friends and advocates of human rights, to wear orange on March 11, 2008. This was to draw attention to how the deplorable conditions suffered by people who are incarcerated also affect everyone in the outside. Furthermore, community partners were invited to participate in a series of coordinated art activities in San Francisco. Now their goal is to do it every year.
Join HYPER.SEA’s affiliated initiative “Wear Orange for a Day” and learn more about the upcoming 2010 campaign at : www.plainhuman.org
Why wear the color orange?
By collectively wearing this color in a public space, we are subverting the silence. Often this color is culturally understood to signify hazard and danger. The same signifier affect relatives and friends of incarcerated people and prisoners because it creates fear and this causes alienation and shame. PLAIN HUMAN will facilitate this day of awareness as an exercise to experience, embrace, share, empower, and to simply reveal who we are, persons with a member of our family who has been incarcerated.
About PLAIN HUMAN:
Founded by Mabel Negrete with Miriam Alfaro and with the participation of Sunny Angulo, John Blanco, Mary Ann Brooks, Marguerite Davernport and Kip Williams, Plain Human is a collaborative group of creators, designers and activists based in the Bay Area who has friends and family members incarcerated in California and National Correctional Institutions. Broadly in scale and local context, Plain Human creates art projects that seek to reconsider and re-imagine the Prison Industrial Complex.