TUG Collective

TUG Collective braids together creativity, critique, and citizenship through interdisciplinary art practice. Fostering social cohesion among community partners invested in civic engagement, we create contact zones where people can generate insights about, and produce actions around, contemporary social issues, all of which manifests in diverse artistic forms including performance, multi-media installation, and site-specific interactions. Recent projects include: Borders, Corridors, and Lines of Desire, an installation of seven works that exposes the seams of some of the most poetic visions that US-Americans have of themselves as a country founded on the ideals of freedom, democracy, and inclusion; and sea/sky, blood, earth, you, a multi-faceted project and art exhibition in support of Freedom & Captivity, a humanities initiative for an abolitionist future, that brought together prison-reform advocates and Returning Citizens in Maine to gather some meaning about fragility, resilience, and the performance of care. Currently, TUG is developing Do Not Forgive My Hands, a multi-media installation that establishes pathways of associations regarding how humans twist things around them—animals, objects, emotions—toward violence.