Project Interchange is A live dialogue between poets in Albuquerque and Santa Fe
contemplating connection, community, and the differences and similarities between our two cities
The text conversation is projected live on large-scale, outdoor walls in both cities
These conversations expand from guiding questions about our relationship to one another
Though only separated by 56 miles, Santa Fe and Albuquerque are divided by socio-economic and cultural factors which inform our experiences of each place.
Project Interchange seeks to explore this gap and to offer expansive dialog about those factors that separate us and those that connects us. This project offers a space that seeks to expand how we understand and connect to each other and ourselves.
The significance and the innovation of Interchange reside in this project’s capacity to expand notions of public art to include collective, widely accessible public engagement in the artwork production, in the seamless integration of text and image, and in the use of existing urban infrastructure as sites. It is public art that is fleeting and responsive and proposes fluid dialogue about the shared experience of a place.
The public is invited to use this website to submit responses to the questions that Project Interchange poses.
April 28, 2023
The first iteration of Project Interchange was Friday April 28, from 8-10 PM at Fusion Theater in Albuquerque and The Railyard in Santa Fe.
Poets in Albuquerque included:
Sara Rivera
Valerie Martinez
Beca Alderete Baca
Amaris Ketcham
Poets in Santa Fe included:
Edie Tsong
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Loretta Trujillo