AYAKA YAMAMOTO – WE ARE MADE OF GRASS, SOIL, AND TREES (个展)

On 21 August, prisoners in facilities across the US and Canada launched a strike in response to a riot at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina. They issued a list of ten demands, including: the end of prison slavery, life sentences and felon voter disenfranchisement; improved prison conditions; and the re-instatement of Pell Grants for education. Meanwhile, from Greece to California, the world  is literally going up in flames as a result of droughts and rising global temperatures. In California, incarcer ated firefighters are conscripted  to contain these wildfires – one of the many ways that the neoliberal state  relies on the labour of warehoused populations to manage capital’s negative ‘externalities’. The strike began, fittingly, on the 47th anniversary of the killing of George Jackson, the American black activist and author, by prison guards  in San Quentin, San Francisco.  – 8月21日，由于南卡罗来纳州李惩教所发生骚乱，美国和加拿大各地监狱的囚犯发起了罢工。他们提出了一份十项要求，包括：结束监狱奴役、无期徒刑和剥夺重罪选民的权利；改善监狱条件；以及重新发放佩尔教育补助金。同时，从希腊到加利福尼亚，由于干旱和全球气温上升，世界实际上正在熊熊燃烧。在加利福尼亚，被监禁的消防队员被征召去控制这些野火，这是新自由主义国家依靠仓库人口的劳动力来管理首都的负面“外部性”的许多方式之一。这场罢工恰好开始于美国黑人活动家George Jackson和旧金山圣昆廷监狱监护人杀害第四十七周年纪念日。