Join us at Mason Exhibitions Arlington to witness and participate in The Innocents Punch Party with Maria Gaspar. To RSVP, visit www.masonexhibitions.org…

Maria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify, mobilize, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. In collaboration with George Mason University’s data mapping and art history scholars, Gaspar will continue to realize her goals of abolishing carceral spaces by adding prints of current prisons, jails, and immigrant detention facilities in Virginia to the Disappearance Jails project, which will ultimately be obscured through perforations by exhibition visitors.

The Innocents is a social justice advocacy performance art piece by musicians and composers Allen Otte and John Lane. Using a variety of found-object and home-made instruments, electronic soundscapes, and spoken texts, the one-hour dramatic soundscape comprised of at least seventeen individual tableaus will explore various aspects of the issues surrounding the American criminal justice system.

Questions should be emailed to Alissa Maru at amaru@gmu.edu