DIS OBEY began and continues as a series of experiments. These experiments nurtured opportunities for youth participants, as well as teaching artists, to tinker with both form and concept in agile learning environments where exploration and discovery were the guiding principles.
What emerged from these experiments were meditations on the political landscape: a collaboratively written zombie play set in Delaware, sprawling lists of utopic and dystopic futures, dense collages of text and images, and poems about home.
This anthology is a humble attempt to capture just a fragment of what happened across the different DIS OBEY sites in New York City.
—Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Creative Advisor
Colophon
This publication was produced by The Shed’s Civic Programs, Design, and Editorial Departments:
Alex Poots, Artistic Director and CEO
Tamara McCaw, Chief Civic Program Officer
Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Creative Advisor
Solana Chehtman, Director of Civic Programs
María Fernanda Snellings, Assistant Producer, Civic Programs
Keri Bronk, Design Director
Other Means, Graphic Designers
Kyle Richardson, Graphic Designer
Phillip Griffith, Editor
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