Setdate amanda5/16/2023 They have been displayed in different configurations as a way to call upon these labor hxstories. These protest-sticks then are what represents the collectivity at hand in this work (hxstoric and contemporary). And make friends and chart conversations around related topics. ![]() Ongoing dinners enable me to collect mussel shells and construct replicas of the noise-maker protest sticks. The photos on this page are largely from the Rochester Art Center CLAMS event. To date the accumulation of noise-maker sticks in the 300s and represents symbolically, for me, an ever increasing potentiality of fellowship and protest. I prefer the events to remain undocumented, represented instead by the mussel shells produced from the dinners. ![]() Protesting unfair wages and long hours, the workers purportedly tied their dinner shells to sticks as noise-makers, marched in the streets, and shouted: ”We Can Not Live on Clams Alone!”Ī historically affordable and at-hand meal for Italian-American immigrants in the early 20th century, my mussels dinners menus are modest in keeping with my kin. In the gallery setting, a sign-up sheet is posted on one of the gallery walls, open to the first people curious to sign-up and return at later set-date for a dinner of mussels (limited to between five to eight guests respectively per location).Īlso on the wall in the gallery-setting is a slogan taken from Vanzetti’s organizing in 1916 with workers at the Plymouth Cordage Company in Plymouth, MA. Since 2014, CLAMS has been hosted directly in my kitchen, in those of acquaintances (brand new ones as well as dear friends), in the Reed Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), The Carnegie Art Center (Covington, KY), and the Onofrio Gallery at Rochester Art Center (Rochester, MN). CLAMS is an ongoing, invitational dinner event inspired by Italian-American immigrant labor hxstories and the anarchists Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
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