Lizania Cruz: $200 From… To… -With Love
February 14 – April 6, 2019
Due to the process-based nature of the Session program, $200 From… To… -With Love will undergo constant modifications; the features of this page provide accruing information on the project’s developments.
Events
All events are free and open to the public. Events are subject to change
Launch of Sanctuary Family workbook with Center for Family Life and Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Wednesday, March 6, 4:30-6 pm
Poetry Reading: Emmy Catedral, Angela Abreu, Zain Alam
Thursday, March 7, 6:30 pm
Know Your Rights for Business Owners and how to protect undocumented workers: led by Albert Saint Jean: Chief Organizer for the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
Thursday, March 14th, 6:30pm
Ally-Building Workshop led by Cecilia Lim and Deva Estin (Hate-Free Zone Queens)
Saturday, March 16, 3pm
Screening| The Sixth Section (2003) dir. Alex Rivera
Thursday, April 4, 7 pm
Closing Party
Saturday, April 6, 7-10 pm
$200 From… To… -With Love
On February 14, Lizania Cruz will begin $200 From… To… -With Love a participatory art project focused on remittances, the money migrant send to their homelands. Annually, remittances total of over $500 billion dollars. In some countries remittances make up a large portion of the countries GDP; 10.5% in the Philippines, 20% in el Salvador, and 32% in Haiti. Cruz’s project attempts to make visible the impact a dollar could have, and the kinship and love embedded in the seemingly modest act of sending money home as a gift and support for family and loved ones. $200 From… To… -With Love explores how this economy of care challenges growing dangerous xenophobic narratives of immigrants both within the US and internationally.
During her Session, Cruz will solicit receipts from Recess visitors, non-immigrants and immigrants, for purchases in the USA of $200 and under, which will serve as the base for a series of collages depicting the profound impact that same amount has when spent in a commonly used food item in a country with a high remittance flow. Cruz’s colleges will be displayed at Recess and available for sale to visitors and the profits will go to a fund subsidizing the fees paid by migrants when sending remittances.
Complimenting Cruz’s physical artworks, the artist will partner with artists, activists and advocacy organizations such as The Center for Family Life, The Black Alliance for Just Immigration, the Hate Free Zone organizers on a series public events and workshops. Events will focus on investment in and financing of education for immigrants, migrant worker rights, and allyship, and will take the form of screenings, talks, and readings on the impact, sacrifice and love represented by remittances.
Open to the public Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6pm; Thursday, 2-8pm
About the Artist
Lizania Cruz (1983) is a Dominican participatory artist living and working in New York City. She is interested in how migration effects notions of citizenship, identity, and ways of belonging. Cruz has been exploring these themes in concepts that translate to printed matter, objects, and photography. Currently, she is an Alumni Create Change artists-in-residence at The Laundromat Project, where she created We the News, a series of story circles with Black immigrants and first-generation Black Americans that are documented through zines and distributed publicly through a roaming newsstand. She is also a Participatory Design Fellow with the Design Trust for Public Space. Her work has been exhibited at the Arlington Art Center, Project for Empty Space, The August Wilson Center, the Art/Center South Florida, and Jenkins Johnson Project Gallery among other venues and has been published in Hyperallergic, KQED Arts, Fuse News, and The New York Times.
This program is supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. This project is also supported in part by an award from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In-kind support is provided by Materials for the Arts.
