Traces: A Record of the Not-Yet
From June 19–26, The Space will present Traces: A Record of the Not-Yet, a weeklong installation marking the culmination of the six months of encounters in emancipatory practice.
The installation is part of A Year of Emancipatory Practice (YEP), a series of small experiments with radical intent—creative actions grounded in the Black Radical Tradition and shaped by collective inquiry, imagination, resistance, and care. Since January, artists and community members have been invited to consider how emancipatory practice might appear in daily life: as refusal, remembrance, gathering, improvisation, mutual support, rest, and the creation of possibilities not yet fully visible.
The June installation will bring together traces of these first six months, approaching documenting and archiving as living, relational, and unfinished—a place where individual experiences enter into conversation with shared memory.
The installation also launches The People’s Archive, an evolving online collection created with and for the community. Visitors will be invited to contribute their own reflections, stories, images, and evidence of emancipatory practice. These contributions will help shape the archive and inform the next six months of the project.
Traces: A Record of the Not-Yet will be on view June 19–26 in The Space, 174 E Toole. An opening gathering will take place June 19, 5 - 7 pm.
This program is supported in part by Night Bloom Grants for Artists funding through MOCA Tucson and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
A Year of Emancipatory Practice is funded in part by the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.