I’m going over some ‘Corona Studio’ projects as we start to think about the future of the program, and I’m coming across the beautiful and generous work of Ghana Think Thank.
One of their actions in Corona this past summer was a Legal Waiting Zone, which you can see vividly in the slides below. To give a little context for the public space intervention that you will see in the pictures below, let me tell you where the idea came from. First, you should know that as an artist collective GTT has been practicing the art of problem-solving. And to make a long story short, a problem was submitted to them about young immigrants in Corona being harassed by the police for simply standing on the sidewalk and waiting. From a network of “think tanks” that the group has established in places like Ghana, Cuba, El Salvador, and a female prison in the US, they were given a solution to the problem: simply establish “Legal Waiting Zones”. So they got to work.
About Corona Studio: A cool set of projects QMA has been supporting in Corona. You might see something about Ghana Think Tank, Tania Bruguera/Immigrant Movement International, or our partnership with Queens College around a ’social practice MFA’ (now sleekly dubbed ‘Social Practice Queens’).
