The Stamps Gallery's Taking a Stand exhibition opened on January 17 with a reception that featured a performance by Detroit artist Sacramento Knoxx along with Bianca Millar and White Feather Woman.

Photos from the reception show viewers engaging with 3D films, augmented reality, interactive drawings, and more through the works of artists micha cárdenas, Oliver Husain, Elizabeth LaPensée, Meryl McMaster, and Syrus Marcus Ware.

Taking a Stand curator Srimoyee Mitra writes:

The collectivist impulse of the projects recast the gallery as a catalyst, a site of action and possibility for urgent and meaningful dialogue on culture and politics. The immersive and interactive installations don’t just represent social concerns from our cosmopolitan present, they delve into playful and poetic exchanges with public audiences on empathy and decoloniality to imagine just and equitable futures. Drawing on the themes of science fiction, artists in the exhibition invite audiences to time travel, blurring fact with fiction, weaving fantastical narratives and desires with ancestral knowledge, collective memories, and stories from their natural and urban environments. They acknowledge the vitality of recuperating Indigenous, migrant, and LGBTQI subjectivities and practices to better understand how to heal our damaged planet.

The exhibition runs through February 29 and includes a number of related events:

• Activist Love Letters / Friday, February 7, 2020, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
• Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event #2 w/Darryl Terrell / Saturday, February 8, 2020, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
• Ann Arbor Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon / Saturday, February 22, 2020, 11:00am - 3:00pm

See photos from the opening-night reception by Nick Beardslee:

Taking a Stand is at Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division St., Ann Arbor, through February 29. Visit stamps.umich.edu for gallery hours and more information.