“We will not pay your debts but feed everyone at our table”:
On Abundance, Rupture, and (Re)balance

 

Pratt Institute School of Architecture | Higgins Hall
61 St James Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11238

 

Led by Forge Projects
Sarah Biscarra Dilley and Natalie Ball

 

Drawing on original protocols of abundance, this discussion considers its transformation from living commitment to inanimate material through the violence of settlement and imperialism. The session will engage possibilities of repair through understanding abundance as animate and crucially entwined with responsibilities to collective care. Participants are invited to honestly situate themselves and their relationships to wealth, both material and immaterial, towards tangible strategies of redistribution and rebalance. We encourage individuals with resources and cultural workers in philanthropy to attend.
 

Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer serving as Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project. Their practice emphasizes movement, relational landscapes, and presence as a corrective to interruption, extraction and enclosure.
 
 
 
 
Natalie Ball was born in Portland, Oregon, holds a Bachelor’s in Indigenous, Race & Ethnic Studies and Art from the University of Oregon, and an M.F.A. from Yale. A recipient of numerous art fellowships, she is an elected official on the Klamath Tribes Tribal Council and raises three children in her ancestral homeland.
 
IG: @sarahbiscarradilley
IG: @natalie_m_ball