We Keep Us Safe: Sanctuary as Collective Practice

With Reverend Juan Carlos Ruiz and Tania Bruguera

Public space is a site of contested realities and political potentials. Artists and organizers have long harnessed this balance, understanding the importance of public art and campaigns to mobilize wide networks of people, while strategically messaging with their intended communities

For the second event in the We Keep Us Safe series, artist Tania Bruguera and Reverend Juan Carlos Ruiz reflect on the work of public art and grassroots organizing as tools of community support to create spaces of protection and solidarity in times of social and political uncertainty. Bruguera and Ruiz will consider what it means to build a sanctuary—not only as a physical refuge, but as a collective practice.

We Keep Us Safe: Sanctuary as Collective Practice is a part of Toward Sanctuary, a series of programs exploring the cultivation of sanctuary as a living history and ongoing aspiration inspired by Guadalupe Maravilla’s artistic practice and upcoming Creative Time public art commission.

Events will take place at CTHQ and engage other spaces across the city, including a nightclub and an urban farm.

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