Join us this election season for Soapbox Response, an opportunity to reflect on artist Zoe Leonard’s (b. 1961, Liberty, NY) 1992 text-based work I want a president. SoapBox Response invites artists, activists, and thinkers to share contemporary responses to Leonard’s work.

The piece is presented as a 20 x 30 foot wheat-paste installation adjacent to the High Line at West 13th Street, and was originally written the year that poet Eileen Myles ran for president as an independent candidate alongside George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. The text calls for a president who more accurately represents neglected and disenfranchised communities.

What would performance artists, poets, theater directors, and writers like to see their president be in 2016? Come discover it together, and join the conversation.

Featuring:

Shaun Leonardo

James Scruggs

Amir Parsa

Ivan Monforte

Meera Nair

Caron Atlas

Mahina Movement

Nancy Agabian

Mariposa Fernandez

Sol Aramendi

Jaret Vadera

Natalie N. Caro

Pauline Park

Paulina Perera-Riveroll

Risa Shoup

Susana Torruela Leval

Diya Vij

Andrea Louie

Marisa Lerer

“I want a president…(a collective reading-DC)” in partnership with Visual AIDS

…among many others