Zara Koroma

The modern United States is a society of social amnesia, of denial of difference, of escape from facing reality. It’s in a public space that this social amnesia might be called to account, which means that the public realm should be gritty and disturbing rather than pleasant.”

Underlying this more genuinely “public art” is the desire to create a sense of public space and public life within a culture which has almost lost its sense of the meaning of the word.

I know there’s a history, but why does much of our work have to be based on that history or speculative futures to be recognized by the establishment? Why is that the attention economy? What attentions would we create for ourselves outside of the greater art ecosystem?

It’s actually kind of using an ethos that lots of tech companies use. Put a product out, let it do its thing, let it fail, fix it. Put it out, let it do its thing, fix it. Right? But the point is, I won’t fix it all the way. There are ways I could have “fixed it,” but then the project would lose interest and viability to me. It wouldn’t question... See more

How do we allow our technologies to have the space to grow into something without the expectation that it’s going to be a perfect thing created to serve? We’re developing very quickly technology that’s not really adequate to support us as humans in the long run. What does it take to get us to understand that relationship and how it might function?

I’m an artist because I need to find a place to exist in a way that feels supportive, that understands who I am and who my communities are.