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Jenny Polak

I use familiar materials to make public and community engaged art, drawings, structures and commemorative objects. My studies in architecture and planning, family history of migration, and collaborations with directly impacted community members drive projects about prison abolition, domestic space and community empowerment in the face of hostile authorities. With ink, building materials, upcycled fabrics …

Shanzhai Lyric

Shanzhai Lyric is a body of research focusing on radical logistics and linguistics through the prism of technological aberration and nonofficial cultures. The project takes inspiration from the experimental English of shanzhai t-shirts made in China and proliferating across the globe to examine how the language of counterfeit uses mimicry, hybridity, and permutation to both …