Breaking ICE

January 31–May 20, 2018

An interactive installation based loosely on the 100 questions used to test aspiring US citizens.

Lukas Brekke-Miesner, Yueqi Chen, Chris Hamamoto, and Takeshi Moro: Breaking ICE: A Community Response to a Citizenship Test, 2017; mixed media; dimensions variable; courtesy of the artists and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Lukas Brekke-Miesner, Yueqi Chen, Chris Hamamoto, and Takeshi Moro: Breaking ICE: A Community Response to a Citizenship Test, 2017; mixed media; dimensions variable; courtesy of the artists and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Lukas Brekke-Miesner, Yueqi Chen, Chris Hamamoto, and Takeshi Moro: Breaking ICE: A Community Response to a Citizenship Test, 2017; mixed media; dimensions variable; courtesy of the artists and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Upcoming
Films
Upcoming
Events
Selected
Objects
Past
Films
Past
Events

Breaking ICE

A Community Response to a Citizenship Test

January 31–May 20, 2018

Based loosely on the 100 questions the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) use to test aspiring citizens, Breaking ICE, according to the artists, "encourage[s] participants to engage in critical dialogue around political, personal, fun, philosophical, and hypothetical questions. Our ultimate goal is to explore a brand of citizenship rooted less in documentation and fear and more in the cultivation of communities of belonging."

Breaking ICE: A Community Response to a Citizenship Test is presented in association with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.