Mabel Negrete

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Sensible Housing Unit (SHU)
2008:Present | Created by CNS *.
is a fabric replica of a prison cell. The work is a tactical device to address prison solitary confinement in ways that the object dissolves into an awareness of the body and brings attention to the complexity of the human-made world. The project has been presented in a gallery, park, street, theater and university setting. – The SHU can be lend to anyone interested in creating a project that will encourage public dialogue about the psychological and physical violence prisoners are forced to experience in segregation housing units across the USA prison system. – [Contact CNS] < http://thecounternarrativesociety.org/home/prison-culture/sensible-housing-unit-shu/

Wear Orange for a Day
2008:Present
is an annual social campaign that draws attention to how the incarceration affects the lives of friends and loved ones on the outside and inside of prisons. Developed in collaboration with Plain Human. – [Visit Wear Orange for a Day 2010 in Facebook ] < http://apps.facebook.com/causes/253398?m
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The Inmate
2007
is an experimental intervention plus a video and attempts to make visible the emotional impact between three subjects (the citizen, her body as the inmate and the viewer of the video). In other words, the idea is to expose the public’s gaze, the artist’s desires to reveal and liberate her body from its natural state of delinquency – a state that had haunted her since her brother was incarcerated, and last the viewer is left to confront with a myriad of questions and emotions.

Hunting the Now, Cazando el Momento
2007:Present | Created by CNS *
is a bilingual scavenging hunt (17” x 11” inches offset double-sided print) and humorously engages the public to reflect on the fading history of two parallel streets impacted by gentrification and migration. – If you live or will be visiting San Francisco, CA > [ Download Game Here ] < http://thecounternarrativesociety.org/home/gent-migra/hunting-the-now/

Changing Places. Changing Bodies
2007
was live multimedia performance where Negrete invited two groups of people - one that identifies with Valencia Street and the other with Mission Street to voluntarily exchange their clothing. The project is an attempt to bring two disparate worlds together - two parallel streets divided by ethnic, economic and cultural extremes.

* the Counter Narrative Society (CNS) is a studio, conceptual identity and participatory process of Mabel Negrete aiming to collect and divulge stories in unusual ways.