Freedom. Performative artist talk by Bergman and Salinas at Wellesley College, 2024.
Unleash Your Creativity Upon the World. HD video 2016.
The word creativity has been hijacked.
Abstract Your Shit Is. Bergman and Salinas HD Video 2012.
Animation from security details of paper money, and voice of Detroit lawyer and city council member, Kenneth Cockrel.
"By 1977, when he was elected to a seat on the Detroit City Council as an "independent socialist," Ken Cockrel had become the most well-known and influential radical in the city, respected, even by his adversaries, for his intellect, rapid-fire eloquence and passionate commitment to fighting inequity and injustice." Cockrel Collection, entry by Wayne State University Reuther Labor Library.
Acknowledgements: the filmmakers Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman, Peter Gessner, and John Louis Jr. and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Detroit
Justice, Poverty, and Speed. Found right-wing political speech. Animation from security details of paper money. 2012
Wildflowers. Interviews with Detroit activitists including Grace Lee Boggs. 2009
Bergman and Salinas
© 2025
Terms and conditions
Design: Joe Gilmore