YEAR OF
UNCERTAINTY

Welcome to the digital platform for the Queens Museum’s Year of Uncertainty! This blog traces and chronicles a year of conversation, experimentation, and reflection among stakeholders and members of our communities, centering five themes: Care, Repair, Play, Justice, The Future. The navigation bar below can guide your experience through this collaborative and unfiltered project. Enjoy yourself!

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YoU Dispatch Questionnaire: Gabo Camnitzer

Gabo Camnitzer

September 1, 2022

YoU Dispatch Questionnaire: Tecumseh Ceaser

Tecumseh Ceaser

September 1, 2022

YoU Dispatch Questionnaire: Mo Kong

Mo Kong

September 1, 2022

YoU Dispatch Questionnaire: Julian Louis Phillips

Julian Louis Phillips

September 1, 2022

YoU Dispatch Questionnaire: Alex Strada and Tali Keren

Alex Strada & Tali Keren

September 1, 2022

A dry erase board with covered in purple text. The largest text at the top-center reads ‘Think, repair, share’ above ‘NYC SCHOOLS’.

Gabo Camnitzer

July 1, 2022

Queens Museum Staff

January 6, 2022

Queens Museum Staff

December 8, 2021

A composite image made up of two headshots. On the left, a headshot of Tecumseh Ceaser. An Indigenous artist with red cap on that reads Decolonize. He wears a navy blue button up with white dots. On his neck, two necklaces, one with a hanging Wampum carved shell and a second one shaped in a circle made out of bright green beads. On the right: a headshot of Shane Weeks. An Indigenous artist with a white t-shirt that reads “Race*Shinnecock*Nation*Warrior” in a circle, with “2017” in the center and two paddles forming an “X”. An arrow is placed across the intersecting paddles.

Honoring Our Connection to Ocean Ancestors and Reclaiming Ceremony: Shane Weeks and Tecumseh Ceaser in Conversation

Tecumseh Ceaser

November 4, 2021

A light yellow Montez Press Radio post-it covered in layers of multicolored handwritten and stamped text. The texts elements are very densely layered, to the point of being indiscernible and illegible.

Montez Press Radio

October 20, 2021

We the People? /¿Nosotrxs la gente?

Alex Strada & Tali Keren

October 14, 2021

Five colorful banners hang from the ceiling reading “Proposal for a 28th Amendment?” And “Is it possible to amend an unequal system?” in the five most spoken languages in Corona, NY. Below the banners, four visitors stand and lay on the five wooden colorful soapboxes in different arrangements.

Alex Strada & Tali Keren

October 2, 2021

In the center are two TV’s back to back attached to a stand on a decorative square rug. On the left, posters of black and white images from the June 4th, 2020 Bronx protests with a variety of slogans. On the right, mixed medium drawings in red and black pinned to the wall.

Julian Louis Phillips

October 2, 2021

On top of a black pedestal, a glass box with metal vents houses a large jasmine plant bathed in pink light. On either side, a rectangle of semi-transparent sheet with a green maze structure is held up by unfinished wood.

Utsa Hazarika

October 2, 2021

A blue wall has small white wall text on the left. In the middle, a large monitor with a blue water droplet displays ways to say “water” across languages in the Algonquian language family. There is a large white wall text on the right: “Tecumseh Ceaser Water Connects Us All”

Tecumseh Ceaser

October 2, 2021

On the left side, there is a large projected still from Gabo Camnitzer’s film, a Picture-in-Picture view of archival classroom materials and blueprints. In the background to the right of the projection, a stack of blue and white posters are on the floor. To the right of the posters, facing the projection, are nine small public school chairs in different colors and materials. Behind the chairs is a large wall text of the exhibit, and to the right is an empty doorway emanating bright green light.

Gabo Camnitzer

October 2, 2021

This image focuses on a wood burning fire pit. Logs are stacked in the foreground and smoke is rising around them. There are four people are present. Three are in the background, focused on the fire with expectant expressions. A fourth person stands above the fire, appearing to arrange logs. This person wears a hat and many other adornments: fringed clothing, and jewelry made of leather, bone, silver, and stones.

Tecumseh Ceaser

October 1, 2021

A Selection of Books from the YoU Study

Queens Museum Staff

June 10, 2021