Interrupted: Cash for Home (Installation)


Interrupted: Cash for Home (Installation)
Traveling Immersive Intergenerational Home Installation
An immersive, interactive, traveling intergenerational home installation highlighting the disruption of comfort, safety, culture and history as a result of gentrification.
Installation materials include: Dismounted “Cash for Home” signs; thrifted and found exterior and interior building materials, home furnishings, and everyday possessions; loaned and inherited family heirlooms and photo album; When They See Us Own Our Home - Red original door by Fatima Laster; photo shrine; Forever Your Girls mixed media collage by Vitus Shell; Interrupted: Cash for Home playlist with radio DJ Reggie “Smooth as Butta” Brown; Ms. American Pie 2 performance video by Fatima Laster and Pedro M. Gutierrez; fried chicken; watermelon; pound cake; sweet tea; red Kool-Aid; and alternating soul food.