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Performing Statistics

Performing Statistics' Freedom Constellations is a multimedia public art installation. Performing Statistics is a national cultural organizing project that uses art to model, imagine and advocate for a world without prisons where young people are fully supported to be free. Performing Statistics believes youth prisons shouldn’t exist and young people most impacted by the juvenile justice system have the power to use art and storytelling to lead the vision toward a world beyond youth incarceration. Their work combines public art, interactive technology, and cultural organizing to work with youth leaders across the country to build campaigns that have reached hundreds of thousands of viewers. Freedom Constellations includes a film titled Freedom Constellations: Dreaming of a World Where All Youth Are Free.

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A banner hanging from a tall building shows a Black youth looking to the sky in front of a yellow sun, with the words
Interactive postcard
Video showing Black youth with eyes closed, breathing as though in sleep, alternating with montages of images of Black youth smiling and moving freely outside and coming together.

Performing Statistics

Freedom Constellations: Dreaming of a World Where All Youth Are Free
2021
Video, 4:01, Directed by Mark Strandquist in collaboration with Performing Statistics and Kiara B., Marcus D., Seth H., Denise T., Netia L., Janiyah S., Siyanah L., MyaLansky M., and Marvin C.