ALEXANDRA HAMMOND
2020 Culture Push Fellow, Fellowship for Utopian Practice
Alexandra Hammond’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, installation and conversational performances. She believes that all beings, objects and Earth inter-are and inter-be. This worldview supports an awareness that our experience of being separate individuals is a result of all-pervading consciousness “seeing itself.” This repositioning of the individual acknowledges that we are part of everything. There is only connection. This perspective calls us to move from extractive modes of operation to caring, maintenance and repairing. Hammond’s paintings are the poetic/pictorial manifestation of this worldview and her installations and performances are its spatial and experiential manifestation.
Hammond holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and BA from NYU’s Studio Art department. Her projects have been shown at Mass MoCA, The Shaker Museum, on the Instagram auction See You Next Thursday, and in New York City, Bangkok, Thailand and Graz, Austria. She is also a creative director, working with individuals, brands and institutions that are part of the regenerative social fabric and economy of the future. https://www.alexhammondstudio.com/
PROJECT: BOA’S REPAIR SHOP
Boa’s Repair Shop facilitates repairing as an act of love and connecting people of all backgrounds. We offer free workshops for the repair of physical objects and metaphysical states of being. Breaking is a normal part of embodied life and physical existence, from marriages to plates to self-worth. It sometimes marks the end of life in one particular form. Other times, it catalyzes repair or reinvention.
At Boa’s Repair Shop, we are liberated by the realization that there is no escape from ourselves, or our things. We are all unfathomably connected: we inter-are and inter-be. Caring for objects (which are imbued with human labor, networks of supply chains and raw materials) means caring for each other, Earth and ourselves. We facilitate repair, digestion, and reinvention in alignment with the ecological principle of the conservation of matter.
